{"id":14286,"date":"2021-09-18T03:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T03:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:20:29","slug":"wakamba-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wakamba-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakamba Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/gallery\/br-spring-1986\/aSummerUpdate86wakabma-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The rarest piece I saw in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/my-visit-to-the-nyc-banana-republic-archive\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14288\">Banana Republic Archive<\/a> was this example of the Wakamba Bag. How rare? It was only featured once, in the Summer 1986 Update. &#8220;Using an ancient method unique to their region, the Wakamba women of Kenya twine these sisal bags by hand after dying the fibers with natural bark dues. At our request, they added the silver-plated conch and solid metal studs. Sturdy and capricious, each bag is woven in its own distinctive stripe pattern.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-848x1131.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/wakambabag-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rarest piece I saw in the Banana Republic Archive was this example of the Wakamba Bag. How rare? It was only featured once, in the Summer 1986 Update. &#8220;Using an ancient method unique to their region, the Wakamba women of Kenya twine these sisal bags by hand after dying the fibers with natural bark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14317,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}