ABOUT THE BABA TREE

Handwoven by name in Bolgatanga, Ghana — The City of Baskets.

At The Baba Tree, every basket comes with the personal story of the weaver who made it. Because each one is shaped by the skill, imagination and personality of that person.
Another beautiful object isn’t enough. Not when so much of what we buy is made to look the same, by people you’ll never know. We think there’s a better way.
Somewhere in Ghana, someone is making your basket.
By hand. With years of skill behind them and their own instinct for shape, pattern and form.
That individuality matters. Every Baba Tree basket carries something of its maker. Their eye. Their energy. Their choices. No production line can reproduce that.
And no two baskets are exactly alike.
We believe the person who made it should matter.
That’s why we tell you their name.
The makers we work with aren’t anonymous hands in a supply chain. They are skilled people with talent, pride and ambition. The Baba Tree exists to give that talent a platform, and to connect it with people who recognise something special when they see it.
There’s no charity story here. Nobody is rescuing anybody.
There is skill on one side and choice on the other.
From our hands to your home.
A Baba Tree basket brings colour, character and a little of the spirit of Ghana into your home.
Made by someone with the freedom to create.
Chosen by someone with the confidence to choose differently.
That’s the connection. And that’s The Baba Tree.

Since 2002, The Baba Tree has woven Bolga baskets, and more recently basket pendant lampshades, in Bolgatanga, Ghana — a town in the Upper East Region so devoted to weaving it is known as the City of Baskets. The elephant grass is prepared and woven by hand before each finished piece is shaped and inspected in Bolgatanga.
Meet our Master Weavers.
In 2026, that skill was recognised on the world stage. Working with Spanish designer Álvaro Catalán de Ocón and his PET Lamp project, the Baba Tree Master Weavers received a special mention at the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 for Frafra Tapestry, shown at the National Gallery Singapore. It was chosen from more than 5,100 submissions across 133 countries — one of only two special mentions given that year.
See The Baba Tree in the press.