"After seeing some baskets, I kept asking my river for better and better examples, Geoffrey Orley said. We kept going deeper and deeper into the Darien Rainforest, visiting countless Panamanian villages until we found a small coterie of hugely gifted women creating baskets with the most amazing technique I'd ever seen."

Each individual artist uses organic motifs from plants, birds, butterflies and wildlife in her unique designs. It is painstaking work under often trying conditions. The baskets are sewn with needles to unite the Chunga filaments around palm coils. Motifs may resemble a stylized flower or Greek key, mimic ritualistic Wounaan body painting, or show the influence of pre-Columbia textiles. Great care is placed in balancing the basket's form with its decoration and vivid coloring. The baskets we offer are the most spectacular examples of the genre. Our clients call these baskets 'collectible masterpieces' and are astonished that elements of traditional patterns are alongside the most modern and imaginative motifs in a single basket.