2 Bushel Laundry BasketHuge Amish Wicker Storage Hamper

• Handcrafted Quality: Handwoven from rattan reed over a solid hardwood bottom about a half inch thick, with a hardwood rim and two leather handles riveted through the weave, by an Old Order Amish family on the Iowa-Missouri border, and signed by the weaver who made it.
• A Whole Machine Load in One Trip: Two bushels is about 18 gallons: 27 x 18 inches at the rim and 13 1/2 inches deep, so a full load of towels comes out of the dryer and goes upstairs once.
• Solid Bottom, Leather Handles: The half-inch hardwood bottom is why a basket this size does not sag or twist when you lift it by one handle, and why it outlasts a plastic basket. The handles are hand-cut leather, riveted through the weave and the rim.
• Measures: 27" x 18" x 13 1/2" tall. Contents not included.
• Three Trim Colors: Choose Plain, Wine & Blue, or Wine & Green. The color is woven in as dyed reed, not painted on.
• Optional Extras: A lift-off solid wood lid made for this basket, a hand-sewn cotton liner made for it, protective feet and an engraved solid brass plate are each optional and sold right on this page. The basket ships open and unlined and is complete without them.
• American Heritage: Handwoven in the USA and signed by the Amish weaver who made it. Backed by our lifetime guarantee, with free shipping and no-questions returns on every order.

This is the basket for the house where the washer runs every day. "It holds even more than anticipated," Michael wrote in 2024. "I know that this will be used and loved by our family for many years to come!" Lynda calls hers a workhorse: "These baskets are meant to be used not just sit in the home and look beautiful (which they do, too)." Colleen, in 2024: "It's large enough to hold lots of laundry easily and the liner is so pretty."

It is big enough that it gets used for other things: Judith keeps "a bunch of pillows" in hers, Sally her birdseed with the lid on, and Raymond uses his "for laundry and storage. Beautiful form. Beautiful function. They smell amazing too." The solid wood bottom is the same bottom that takes a set of casters at home if you want the basket to roll. Karen's one complaint, in 2024: "that I didn't find it sooner!!"

Measure the space first: the 27 by 18 inches are the outside of the rim, the basket tapers toward the bottom, and it is woven freehand, so allow three quarters of an inch either way on a basket this size. The liner sewn for it lifts the load out in one piece and washes by machine, and the lid turns it into a hamper; both are sold on this page and can be added any time after the basket arrives. For a full load in a smaller basket, the Vintage Wicker Laundry Basket at 22 x 16 1/2 is the classic; for a round one, the Extra Large Round Basket; for a hamper that stands in the bedroom with a lid, the Wicker Hamper with Lid. The whole family is on the wicker laundry baskets page.

An Old Order Amish family weaves it by hand on the Iowa-Missouri border, in the same community as the rest of our laundry baskets, and the weaver signs the bottom before it leaves the farm. Standard shipping is free, and rush delivery is offered at checkout when a birthday or Christmas is close. It ships gift-ready, with no prices in the box, a free gift note at checkout, and a short letter about the family who wove it. Like every basket we sell, it carries our lifetime guarantee, and returns are no questions asked.

Measures: 27" x 18" x 13 1/2" tall