"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."

The Wounaan basket fibers come from the Chunga and Nagualo palm trees growing in the surrounding forest. The vibrant colors are obtained from natural dyes derived from native tropical plants. It can take a year or more for each weaver to create a masterwork of this caliber. These baskets have made a bold statement in the art world, while helping to reshape the lives of the families that contribute their work; our patronage adds a tremendous economic boost to the local community.