Market basket, open weave: An open-weave rattan market basket with a bent bamboo handle, honey-coloured cane, standing in a sunlit doorway, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun, by Nguyễn Thị Lan — Photo · In the doorway

Market basket, open weave, macro of the open hexagonal weave, light passing through, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun — 02 / 04 · The open weave

Market basket, open weave, close-up of the bent bamboo handle lashed with cane, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun — 03 / 04 · The handle

Market basket, open weave, split cane drying on bamboo racks beside the piece, pale and honey tones, in a Phú Vinh courtyard, split rattan cane drying on bamboo racks, pale straw and honey tones, whitewashed wall, dappled sun — 04 / 04 · Drying cane

Photographed in Lan's doorway. A basket for the market, the garden, the table; made to be used and to darken with use.

Mây tre cói đan · Rattan, bamboo & sedge · Edition of 10

Market basket, open weave

Mây — rattan, the climbing palm whose cane is split by hand for weaving.

$160

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Nguyễn Thị Lan

Rattan weaver · Phú Vinh village · Fourth generation

The open market weave Lan’s grandmother wove in the same doorway, in cane Lan splits herself — finer than the men do, she says, because her hands are smaller. Light enough to lift with a finger, strong enough to carry rice from the field.

It was made to be used. Take it to the market.

Materials: Hand-split rattan, bamboo handle
Technique: Open weave, Lan's grandmother's pattern
Dimensions: 36 × 24 × 20 cm · 14.2 × 9.4 × 7.9 in · 0.5 kg
Edition: Edition of 10 · Signed and sealed
Made: Phú Vinh, Chương Mỹ · 2026
Delivery: Crated by hand, insured door to door · Ready in 5 days · 30-day return