French Market BasketAmish Wicker Farmers Market Shopping Bag

• Handcrafted Quality: Every French Market Basket is handwoven from rattan reed over a solid hardwood bottom by the Mast Family, Old Order Amish weavers on the Iowa-Missouri border. No factory touches it at any point, and no two are exactly alike.
• The Real French Market Basket: Most bags sold for the farmers market today are fabric or mesh totes that slump flat the moment you set them down. This is a woven wicker shopping basket in the classic French style, and it stands open on its own, holds its shape fully loaded, and lasts for decades instead of seasons.
• Room for the Whole Market Run: Measures 17 inches long, 7 1/2 inches wide, and 12 inches tall. Wide enough for produce, bread, and jars laid in side by side, with sides tall enough that nothing rolls out on the walk back to the car.
• Genuine Steerhide Handles: Hand cut, hand rolled, and riveted at the rim, made from hand selected US steer hides. They carry a full market load comfortably and are built to outlast the errands you give them.
• Choose Your Trim: Comes in Plain, Wine & Blue, or Wine & Green woven trim, all at the same price. Pick the one that suits your kitchen.
• Optional Liner and Extras: A removable, washable cloth liner is available in Cream, Wine, Blue, or Green, sold separately, so add one if you like a soft interior. A custom engraved brass plate and protective feet are optional too. The liner shown in our photos is an optional addition, and contents are not included.
• One Basket, Many Errands: Customers use theirs as a market tote, a grocery basket, a garden gathering basket, even a school bag. One reviewer wrote that she finds an excuse to use this bag for just about everything.
• American Heritage: Handwoven in the Heartland of the USA and signed by the Mast Family weaver who made it. Backed by our lifetime guarantee, with free shipping on every order.

A french market basket should be a simple, useful thing: a sturdy woven basket with leather handles that rides along to the market empty and comes home full. Ours is handwoven from rattan reed by the Mast Family, Old Order Amish weavers on the Iowa-Missouri border, over a solid hardwood bottom that sits flat and never sags. At 17 inches long, 7 1/2 inches wide, and 12 inches tall, it makes a generous farmers market basket, yet it stays narrow enough to rest comfortably against your side on the walk home.

Search for a farmers market bag today and you will mostly find fabric and mesh totes. They fold away nicely, but they also slump the moment you load them, and the tomatoes end up underneath the potatoes. A wicker shopping basket does not do that. This one stands open and ready, keeps its shape however full it gets, and sets down flat on the ground or the counter without tipping. The handles are genuine US steerhide, hand cut, hand rolled, and riveted at the rim, made from heavy hides the families select themselves for durability.

Our customers rarely stop at market day. "I find an excuse to use this bag for just about everything. It's perfect!" one reviewer wrote. Another bought hers "to use as my school bag." Between errands it serves as an everyday market tote or woven market bag, and at home it looks right sitting out in the kitchen, holding fruit or bread until the next trip. It gets given away a fair amount too. "I purchased the Farmer's market basket as a gift for one of my best friends," a customer told us. "The craftsmanship is beyond beautiful!"

Like everything our Amish families make, this basket is signed on the bottom by the Mast Family weaver who crafted it, a quiet mark of pride that has stood behind their work for generations. It ships free, it carries our lifetime guarantee, and returns are accepted with no questions asked. Choose your trim, add the liner if you like, and it will be on its way from the Shipping Barn to your door.