Half the baskets on sale are either flimsy or joyless, and often both!

Just imagine one that is genuinely well made and genuinely nice to look at. Now stop imagining, because this basket has a firm quilted body and a long green dragonfly stitched across a meadow of ferns and blossom.

• Dragonfly Over The Ferns
  The dragonfly stretches wide across the front in green and gold, its wings finely veined, set over stitched ferns and small flowers in rust and cream. It is the boldest of the garden designs.
• Padded Quilted Panels
  Every side is quilted, which gives the basket a soft, pillowed surface and a little weight in the hand. It reads as a piece of textile rather than as storage. That is exactly why it can stay out in the open.
• Stitched Fabric Handles
  Both handles are reinforced where the strain lands, so a heavy armful of bedding does not pull them loose. Lift, carry, set down, repeat.
• Keeps Its Shape
  The body is structured enough to stand on its own from the moment you set it down. Empty, it still looks like it belongs there rather than like something waiting to be put away.
• Three Useful Sizes
  Small for a single bathroom, medium for a bedroom, large for the household that never quite catches up. Pick by the room rather than by the pile.

Well made and worth looking at, which is a rarer combination than it should be. It will be carrying the washing for many years yet.