Large Picnic Basket | Old-Order Amish Woven Picnic Hamper Basket

• Handcrafted Quality: Rattan reed handwoven over a solid wood bottom, with a hardwood frame around the top for strength, a lift-off solid wood lid with a leather pull, and two genuine steerhide leather strap handles riveted through the weave, by an Old Order Amish family on the Iowa-Missouri border, and signed by the weaver who made it.
• The Hamper Size: 22 x 13 inches and 10 inches tall: the picnic for five or six, with the legged wood shelf that comes with it standing inside, so the pie or the dessert rides safe underneath and the sandwiches and drinks ride on top. The shelf lifts out when a tall dish needs the full depth.
• Serving Sets Up To Six: The set for 2, 4 or 6, optional on this page, straps 9 inch melamine plates and 12 ounce tumblers to the inside of the lid and rolls the stainless flatware into a hand-sewn case, so the whole table leaves the house in one basket.
• Measures: 22" x 13" x 10" tall; about 7 pounds empty, about 12 packed with a liner and the set for four. The shelf is included; contents are not.
• Three Trim Colors: Choose Plain, Wine & Blue, or Wine & Green. The color is woven in as dyed reed, not painted on, and on the plain finish the stain takes to each piece of wood in its own way.
• Optional Extras: The serving set for 2, 4 or 6, a wine and cheese serving set, a hand-sewn cloth liner in cream, wine, blue or green, an engraved solid brass plate and protective feet are each optional and sold right on this page. The lid stays closed on its own, and the straps pass over it. The plates and tumblers strap to the inside of the lid on leather straps cut for these pieces, the flatware rolls into a hand-sewn case, and the helpers fit the set before the basket ships, so it is ordered with the basket.
• 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.

Josephine, in 2022: "The perfect size for a 5 person picnic. Beautiful craftsmanship, and sturdy to boot. Every detail is well thought out." Theresa: "It is a solid piece." Stamos: "The basket delivered looks even more beautiful than depicted on the website photos."

Kathleen packed her Christmas one before it left: "i will put in it an enamelware set of dishes, a red checked tablecloth, and two thermoses." Leslie's was "a congregational gift to our new reverend". Nicole: "We included an engraved brass plaque, and it really made this personal." Patricia gave one to her teenage daughter: "It was lovely that it was signed by the makers and that it came with a note about them." Bogeyjim, on the box it came in: "they did not skimp on the bubble wrap".

The sizes are outside measurements. For eight, the Extra-Large Picnic Basket takes the set for 8; for four, the Traditional Picnic Basket carries the same shelf in a smaller frame. All the sizes are on the picnic 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 picnic baskets, and signs the bottom before it leaves the farm. Standard shipping is free, and rush delivery is offered at checkout when a wedding or a birthday 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 made it. Like every basket we sell, it carries our lifetime guarantee, and returns are no questions asked.

Measures: 22" x 13" x 10" tall