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The Sh45,000 kiondo brings grandma’s craft back to life, supports women weavers
Vicky Ngari displays a sisal-woven bag, or “Kiondo,” at the Cosmology of the Kiondo event held at Hemingways Eden Residence in Nairobi on November 14, 2025.
While abroad, Vicky Ngari saw versions of the kiondo that were “very manufactured and inauthentic.”
“They looked good, but they were not done the right way or with the original sisal material, yet they were being sold for around Sh259,300 to Sh388,950 ($2,000 to $3,000),” she says.
