Some New Pieces at our workshop

We have created few baskets these days with some of our bead workers who are still having sometime to bead even if we are not having the work available for everyone as the market is still very slow at the moment. We have done with a few more quit big pieces and really love to share with everyone of what we are having new on our workshop.

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Happy Thunder Storing Basket

One of the village beader has been patiently creating this wonderful piece in a couple months time with such a fabulous patient to hand strung the seed beads onto the whole surface of the rattan baskets. She was quit brave to play with those colors.

Our New Works

Our beaders have been playing more in these stunning geometric lines in our designs which came out to be such a fantastic works. They have been pridefully playing with some color's combination in their works which came out to be fantastic pieces of art. We are all so proud to present these baskets to add the beauty of our gallery of works.

New Design Offering baskets

These days we have been kept busy by working on some bamboo basket with a bit of beads and sea shell.  We create the products for a client in the Netherlands, Moga Moga. Everyone has been so excited to work on the new design baskets where we all hope that they are going to get some good market as it would help the local basket weaver to keep having the work. It is completely different than our beaded baskets but it is wonderful to keep our beaders busy with some works during this slow time for our beaded baskets.

The bamboo baskets are woven at a small village around the region of Bangli by mostly women and it has been the side job for the local people for generation. The bamboo itself are nicely growing in this region with its tropical climate. We love to share with everyone of what we have been working on the last few weeks.

Jumbo Cupu

It has been a slow year of 2009 for our beading but we have been trying hard to survive during the hard year with not much of a sale for us. We tried to bead on and create a bit of beaded baskets and one of our beader has been patiently working on a Jumbo Cupu beaded basket over the last year and so proudly she has done with it. We are all very proud of the biggest basket that might have ever beaded on Bali. We well understand how patiently she did hand strung every single tiny bead onto the steady Jumbo Rattan baskets and we are proudly sharing the fabulous work of our beader to those who have patient about beadwork.

This Jumbo Cupu is 1 meter of height and about 60
cm of width and has taken about 8 months for the lady to finish the beading. We will write more on this Jumbo basket but we are just so impatient to share the work to everyone around the globe. We will be sharing more stories on this big pieces.

Slow time

It has been such a slow time for us as we do not have much order and we haven't been able to sell our works lately but we have to keep the works for all the beaders and again I ended up filling up my room with all the beautiful baskets. They are well kept in many boxes, sitting on our tables and shelf but they are beautiful there on their place until there will be market for them in the future.

It is a little nervous for us to have so many baskets in our stock and it is such a big invetment and keeping the work we indeed need some cash flow...

As you see, we have been trying to put advertising everywhere but let's see what's gonna bring us in the near future....

Wish us luck.

Finished Black & White Baskets

A Lampshade that's beaded by Ni Made Yulina

Hello, Here are what we have finsihed with our recent black and white baskets. They are beautiful and love to share the great works that our team have presented with lots of patient over the monthes of creation. We are going to create more of greater pieces for the future.

A Jumbo Cupu that's beaded by Ni Ketut Klinik

A Cupu Bong that's beaded by Ni Nyoman Tinawati

Black and White

Nariati and Tiari are working on new design which are mostly black and white seed beads.

Ayu is also working on black and white Jumbo Cupu.

Beading

Here is how fast Ni Made Yulina is hand stringing the tiny seed beads on to the basket. She is one of the fastest beader at our workshop. She has just graduated from elementary school and going to be at elemenetary

Ni Wayan Ariani

Date of Birth : Thursday, June 06, 1996

Home Address : Bali, Indonesia.

Big Round Tall

Ni Ketut Klinik have finished her Big Round Tall with such a great patient over months and now she is proudly present her biggest baskets. It is such a lovely work of her and it is fabulous to be used as a storing basket.

Ni Wayan Ita Triani

Date of birth : Friday, September 01, 1995

Home address : Bali, Indonesia.

Ni Nyoman Diani

Date of birth: Wednesday, July 01, 1998

Home address : Bali.

Ni Luh Dewik Darmayanti

Date of Birth: Thursday, April 09, 1992

Home Address : Bali.

I Wayan Ardikayasa

Date of birth : July 23rd, 1995.

Home Address : Bali.

Motivation : I love to do a little job to help my parents to make extra money , at least to support my school expenses and making a little pocket money for school.

Ni Nyoman Puri Adnyani

Date of birth : April 4th, 1970

Home Address : Bali.

Motivation: It is really fun and I have been enjoying it very much even if I have just learnt about this craft. I love to learn a new crafting and also helping income for my family. I have 2 handicapped children and it makes me to stay home for most of the time to look after my kids. It is sometime a little boring to me and having this opportunity to keep me busy and it has been so helpful. I wish that I will be able to help my family with what I am doing now. Thanks for such a marvellous chance to be involved in creating the beaded baskets.

Beading at our workshop

It is the daily activity at our workshop creating the beaded baskets, children are coming home after school and the young village's mothers are spending their free time after finishing the house works. The beading is also more like a socializing activity for everyone where they share jokes, stories and even gossip. They always have such a great fun during the works, patiently hand strung the tiny seeds beads onto the woven rattan baskets. Ketut, Ayu, Nilayanti, Indah, Yulina, Agus and Tinawati are busy with her baskets.

Ni Wayan Darmi

Date of birth : May 27th, 1993

Home : Bali.
Motivation : Working part time to make some money for my school and family.

Ni Made Sartina

Date of birth : August 7th, 1995

Home : Bali.

Motivation : Spending my free time after school and also making extra income for my family and my studies.