Paper rope is woven by hand around a wood frame to make a tapered bin holding 3 gallons within a 9.65 inch cube. A plastic liner lifts out so spills stay off the weave, and the wide open top means nothing has to be pressed through a lid or a flap.
Three gallons covers a day or two of paper in an office or roughly a week in a bedroom, and the wood frame beneath the weave supplies rigidity that rope alone would not. Total weight stays low, so the basket shifts aside easily when the floor is vacuumed.
Brown paper rope has a matte, corded texture that pairs with oak desks, leather, and warm wall colors in an entryway or hobby room. The tapered profile narrows toward the base, taking up less floor than the width of the opening suggests, which helps when the bin has to share a footwell with a chair or a stack of storage boxes.
The removable plastic liner blocks leaks from damp waste and can be pulled out and rinsed at a sink. Used on its own it holds soil and a plant, which turns the woven shell into a cachepot for a fern or a trailing vine in the same corner.
Banana leaf woven over a tapered steel frame, a 10 inch round bin for bedroom, bath, or office waste.
Gray paper rope bin, round and tapered at 10 inches, for offices and bedrooms where white shows marks.
