Northern Namibia is known for the country’s best weavers, creating specialized works in remote places. Namibian Karin le Roux found them. After years of research, gaining confidence of tribal communities and hosting competitions for the best designs, she founded Omba Trust as a way to showcase indigenous artistry. To learn the cultural arts landscape, Omba Arts delved into eleven ethnic groups speaking different languages, including San click dialects. As an artist entrepreneur, le Roux has become distinguished for working with these remote peoples, identifying their finest weavers without disturbing them. She ultimately curated the collection in the first exhibition of indigenous baskets at the National Gallery of Namibia. The research and recognition soon elevated what had been virtually unknown tribal artistry. Omba Arts has since engaged 400 artists across the country. We’re focusing on those who live along the banks of the Okavango River in northeastern Namibia. The organization started here with just a handful of women, working communally to produce something quite individual. Today, some 120 women honor ancestral practices by deploying age-old techniques to create sculptures in the form of baskets. After harvest season, when the women have finished their farm work in the fields, they have time and energy to create these finely woven pieces. Each basket is artist-specific: she collects and prepares palm fibers, twists them, extracts the pigment from bark and other plant extracts to create her color, and creates new designs for each batch. Our selection of six beer strainers ranges from natural to rich caramel-colored and chocolate-colored baskets. The vessels are actually woven cylinders tied at the bottom. Just twenty-five people in the world make them, first twisting the palm, then immersing it in dye extracted from bark or other botanicals before weaving and shaping it. They sew it together to create a beer sifter that captures the liquid’s impurities. The artists, along with OMBA helped to establish a homestead for a palm and dye tree garden, to ensure resource sustainability in the years ahead.