Handcrafted Animal Cotton Rope Basket with Lid | 15"x12", Light Blue Whale

Handcrafted Animal Cotton Rope Basket with Lid | 15"x12", Light Blue Whale

Sale price  $32.99 Regular price $69.99
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Handcrafted Animal Cotton Rope Basket with Lid | 15"x12", Light Blue Whale

Handwoven cotton rope basket

Handcrafted Animal Cotton Rope Basket with Lid | 15"x12", Light Blue Whale

Sale price  $32.99 Regular price $69.99

5% off with code COTTON5

Colour — Light Blue Whale

3 colourways · 2 in stock

Faded colours are between batches. Their pages stay up, and Amazon often still has them.

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Size

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Every swatch is a photograph of the rope, not a flat colour.

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🧺 Natural & Handcrafted
Made from 100% FDA-certified cotton rope 🌿, this Light Blue basket is chemical-free, eco-friendly, and built to last—safe for your home.

📏 Spacious & Functional
With a 15" diameter and 12" height 📦, it’s perfect for storing toys, clothes, blankets, and more. Great as a toy basket or blanket storage!

🎨 Stylish & Versatile
The neutral tones and modern design make it a beautiful fit for nurseries, bedrooms, or craft rooms ✨.

🏡 Perfect for Home Storage
Organize toys, magazines, laundry, or blankets in this sturdy basket that adds charm to any space 🌟.

Foldable & Easy to Use
Equipped with handles for easy carrying 🚚 and folds flat for storage. Fill it up to smooth out packaging creases!

Material

100% natural cotton rope

Inside

No plastic, wicker or metal

Made

Handwoven, shaped by hand

Ships

Folded flat, in a small box

It arrives folded. Two minutes later it stands up.

Every basket ships flat to keep it out of a bigger box. Open it, pull the sides apart, fluff it up and run your hand around the rim and the fins. It holds its shape from then on — no frame, no liner, no plastic ring.

It comes out of the box pressed flat, fins and all. That is on purpose — it keeps the shipping box small.

What actually fits in it?

Photographed on a shelf, because a basket on a white background could be any size — and this is the one shape that lives at eye level rather than on the floor. It takes a shelf’s depth of books and soft animals without leaning.

The material

There is nothing hard in it.

Double-woven cotton rope, 10 mm thick, and that is the whole basket. It weighs variant.weight empty, and the box it arrives in weighs about the same. No wire ring, no cardboard base, no plastic liner, no metal frame. It stands up because the rope is thick, not because there is something rigid inside it.

The fins are the same rope as the body, woven separately and stitched to the rim — the only seam on the basket, and there is still nothing rigid in it.

It looks expensive online. It feels worth it in hand.

That is the thing buyers say most often after it arrives: it looked overpriced on a screen, then felt worth it once they picked it up. The rope is heavy. The weave is tight. Photographs flatten both.

The same cotton rope, with wings, ears or fins. Catch-all bins for playrooms and nurseries, the kind that gets left out on purpose.

All five animals

Bear, bee, fox, giraffe and whale.

The same cotton rope, with wings, ears or fins. Catch-all bins for playrooms and nurseries, the kind that gets left out on purpose.

For the rest of the house

The five things parents ask before they buy

Handwoven storage baskets in 100% natural cotton rope. Also selling on Amazon US, Canada and Australia.

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Same basket, 2 other colours

Colour — Light Blue Whale

3 colourways · 2 in stock

Faded colours are between batches. Their pages stay up, and Amazon often still has them.

Other shapes for the same room

Who makes this

You probably arrived from a search. Here's who we are.

Cottonphant makes one thing: storage baskets woven from 100% natural cotton rope. Every basket is handwoven and shaped by hand. Six shapes, up to thirty colours each — and no frames, liners or wicker anywhere in the range.

How a basket gets made

The five things parents ask before they buy

Why does it arrive flat?

To keep the shipping box small. Pull the sides apart, push the base down and run your hand around the rim — about a minute — and it holds that shape from then on, empty or full.

Will it stand up on its own?

Yes. The rope is double-woven and thick enough to hold the shape without a frame, a liner or a plastic ring. It stays upright empty as well as full.

Will the colour look like the photograph?

Every colourway is photographed in daylight and adjusted for brightness only, never colour-corrected per basket. Each swatch on this page is a photograph of the rope itself.

How do I clean it?

Spot-clean with a damp cloth and let it air-dry. It is cotton rope with nothing inside it, so there is no liner or frame to damage.

Should I buy here or on Amazon?

Either — it is the same basket from the same stock. We recommend Amazon because returns are free and easy there. Buying direct costs you 5% less with code COTTON5.