Bunna

February 28, 2016

What if craftspeople could tell their stories through their products?

The Ehete (Amharic for sisterhood) center is a cooperative of Beta Israeli women from Ethiopia who have come together to create traditional Ethiopian crafts using coil weaving, clay, and embroidery. These women use the center in Kiryat Gat as their cultural community and as a means for much needed financial independence.

We collaborated with women from Ehete to create an end to end making process that takes 2D clay slabs to make 3D forms using linoleum carved patterns and primitive geometry molds. Bunna is coffee product line. The product line narrates Ethiopian cultural stories manifested in their coffee ritual. We have created the Jebena, a traditional coffee maker and serving vessel, the Kos, the Israeli coffee cup, and the Ner, the tealight holder.

Group Project: Katarzyna, Judith Berger, Vidhi Mehta & Hagar Roth (Shenkar College of Engineering & Design)

GoGlobal in Israel

Royal College of Art & Shenkar College

March 2014