When Rwanda’s master basket weaver Janet Nkubana walked me through the symbolism of her basket’s designs, the image you see here left a big impression.
I asked her how long it took a weaver to get from the center knot at the bottom of that basket to the spot she’s pointing to. A couple of inches of weaving.
“It may take a whole day to get from here to here,” she said.
Janet is the master in charge of the masters. Her company employs 32-hundred women to weave baskets. Women who would otherwise have no way to support themselves and whatever family members might have survived the genocide in 1994.