Hadeda Journal
Style Guide: How to curate a basket wall
For private clients, pop-ups, events, photo shoots... a basket wall installation has become something of a HADEDA signature; curating a range of textures, scales and colours that hang beautifully...
Artisan Focus: Collaborative Craft Projects
In this month's Artisan Focus series, where we share in more detail the stories and skills of the makers and co-operatives we work with across Africa, we meet Jane Taylor - the founder of the Coll...
Style Edit: The Bedroom
As winter unfurls, I love nothing better than layering up a bedroom with cosy quilts, piles of pillows and beautiful hand-woven natural materials to create a true sanctuary; whatever the climate of...
Artisan Focus: Joh Del
Inspired by historic botanical illustration plates, South African artist and illustrator, Joh Del has created three exclusive textile designs for HADEDA this autumn, available online as wallhangi...
Artisan focus: Coral & Hive
Based in Somerset West, South Africa, just outside Cape Town - Coral & Hive is a female-founded, hand-loomed rug company that I have collaborated on a range of exclusive HADEDA one-off rugs w...
Artisan Focus - Baba Tree woven baskets
I always think of woven baskets as the 'entry point' into the world of African artisan homewares. Often clients will discover us for our basket collection and it is their first purchase with us... ...
Artisan focus - Chommies
CHOMMIES presents a colourful world of luxury dog accessories, handcrafted by local artisans in its Cape Town studio. The brand ethos marries the vibrancy and raw beauty of Southern Africa with co...
A picture tells a thousand words...
My aim when launching HADEDA was always to create a platform here in the UK for African artisans. With a South African mother and living myself in Tanzania, I wanted to create something that would...
Weaving for change: AAKS raffia summer bags
This season we have a select edit of sustainably woven raffia bags from AAKS in Ghana, hand-woven by female co-operatives the collection celebrates the colour and craftsmanship heritage of the regi...
