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INNIPOOH BASKET STOCKISTS remain the same:

'LoveOne' St Peter's Street, Ipswich
The Lounge (Coffee Shop) Hatter Street, Bury St Edmunds
Wyken Vineyard, Stanton, Suffolk

SUFFOLK SHOWS in the run up to Christmas:

10-4pm Saturday & Sunday 10th/11th OCTOBER ~
Ickworth Park Wood Fair - In the grounds of Ickworth House
(address as above)

10-4pm Saturday 17th OCTOBER ~ Cambridge City Football Club, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 1UY

10-3pm Sunday 15th NOVEMBER ~
County Upper School - Beeton's Way, Bury St Edmunds IP32 6RF

12.30-5.30pm Friday 20th NOVEMBER ~ Ipswich School Winter Fayre

THE READING ROOM - THE ATHENAEUM - BURY ST EDMUNDS CHRISTMAS FAYRE 27th, 28th & 29th NOVEMBER

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A 'snippet' of HOW THE INNIPOOH BASKET COMPANY BEGAN:

British Decorative Artist Trudi Edmunds founded the Innipooh Basket Company in July 2004 during a visit to Mahaballipuram, Tamil Nadu, South East India whilst on holiday. A chance meeting with a neighbour of Parvathi Manivasagam's led Trudi to meet Parvathi in person at her home, where she hand weaves items as a hobby.
The two artisans became good friends, even though they found it difficult to communicate, as neither Trudi nor Parvathi can speak each others language, they overcame this with a mixture of sign language, pointing and drawing. Trudi's friend Ramesh a local restauranteur (www.moonrakersrestaurant.com) & hotelier then assisted by translating emailed basket orders to Parvathi as he speaks both Tamil and English & has a computer! Four years on Parvathi is now able to use a computer herself, with help from her family & friends they are also able to translate the emailed orders.

Commissioning Parvathi back in 2004 to make three different sized baskets for her, Trudi then designed a cotton fabric lining & suggested she embellish the already gorgeous baskets back in the UK by adding handmade & artificial flowers, marabou feathers, small beads, gemstones etc. Trudi then got to work on marketing the concept firstly by naming the company 'Innipooh' which means 'SWEETIE' in the Tamil language (this is what Parvathi & friends call Trudi) then the logo, heart tag & handle inserts were designed. Baskets with original handles are called 'Mitzi' & Trudi decided that the different sized baskets were to be called �Parvathi� for the large one, the medium & smaller one are named after Parvathi�s two daughters Divya & Subasree. An extra large basket was introduced in 2005 which is called 'Maggi' after a teacher who commissioned a basket to be made to fit her laptop, A4 files & books in. In 2006 Trudi added lovely leather handles to the baskets which she now calls the 'Emily' range & according to customer feed back the leather handles make the baskets even more practical and gorgeous!