Keitumetse Morite
 


Keitumetse was born in Botswana at Etsha 7 in 1978. She is a single mother with two daughters. She was left an orphan at an early age.

She learned weaving from relatives who wove patterned open and closed baskets. She was interested in weaving and started making her own which were not of a high grade and needed much improvement. She tried for some years and in 1991 she started selling her baskets at BCC even though they were graded as normal standard. She was nominated a cook at the Etsha Weavers Group, but when she is through cooking she continues with her weaving. Today her baskets have reached the quality of her co-workers, even surpassing some of them, and another cook has been found. Her favorite traditional design is peolwane (swallows). She is very proud of weaving and enjoys it.


Etsha Weavers Group, P.O. Box 11 Etsha
Marketed by:
Botswanacraft Marketing, P.O. Box 486 Gaborone
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