Palm Shopping Bag with Matching Purse

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This expertly made Lontar Palm Fair Trade shopping bag is designed in three striking colours and comes complete with a small matching purse which has a zip fastening.

The bag itself has a zip fastening, is fully lined with two open pockets inside and sturdy leather carrying handles. 

This Fair Trade shopping bag was handmade in Indonesia.

Dimensions - w 54 cm x h 33 cm x d 10 cm approx.

Arum Dalu is a small-scale marketing organisation, set up by Tommy Fredrickson and Sarie, an Indonesian Fair Trade handicraft expert. They work closely with 25-30 small producer groups to help develop interesting and unique new products, but also to provide Fair Trade outlets for the goods. Arum Dalu has some local social involvement, including assisting in tsunami relief programmes.  

Their policy is to work directly with the producers, produce good quality products, paying fair prices, support local handicraft traditions and to try to raise awareness about environmental issues connected to handicraft production. They are also concerned about young people moving away from their villages in search of work and to give them local working possibilities instead. A huge part of the population in Bali, Lombok & other eastern parts of Indonesia are involved in and dependent on handicraft production as their main source of income.    

They have manage to build up a wide selection of producers over the years, covering many different kinds of handicrafts from several Indonesian islands, such as : Bali, Java. Lombok, Sulawesi,  and Borneo (Kalimantan). However, these days, due to the increasing price of transportation they focus on the artisans in the Bali area.

They supply products such as textiles, batik, natural fibre products, woodcarving, musical instruments, jewellery, Bali ceramics, bags, accessories and clothing.

Our beautiful Lontar Palm Shopping Bag with Matching Purse was made by Arum Dalu.