Our Story
Tackussanu Senegal began with an introduction — a friend, C. Biaye, who bridged a world. Through that connection, we found the Wolof women weavers of rural Senegal. And a question worth building something around: how do you honor this craft, and make it sustainable for the people who carry it?
Ngaye village is the center of it. Every Monday, artisan women gather there — sourcing materials, exchanging work, maintaining a tradition that predates most of what we call contemporary design. The coiling method they use is precise and slow: locally grown grass, recycled plastic strips, hands that have practiced this for a lifetime. Each basket is the result of that process. No shortcuts.
Fifty-four percent of these women have had no formal education. That number says nothing about what they know. They are businesswomen and craftspeople, keepers of a visual language that belongs to Senegal. What limits them is access — to markets, to buyers, to fair prices. We work to close that distance.
We work directly with our weavers. No intermediaries. Fair wages, paid directly. Every piece carries their story, even when the market doesn't ask for it.
Established May 2019.
Tackussanu Mission
Jasz spent more than ten years close to Senegalese culture. When that chapter ended, she kept the baskets — the handwoven pieces that had always drawn questions from anyone who walked through her door. She began looking for answers.
What she found: basket weaving in Senegal is almost entirely done by women. Not hobbyists — master craftspeople, carrying centuries of Wolof tradition in their hands. And many of them are financially exposed, with no income of their own, no safety net.
She did not want to build a charity. She wanted to build a partnership. One where the artisan sets her price. Where the money reaches her directly. Where her craft and her story remain hers.
That is what Tackussanu is. A home decor brand grounded in the belief that the objects you bring into your space should mean something — not just in how they look, but in how they were made and by whom. Every basket is handwoven by Wolof women in Senegal using methods passed down through generations. Sustainable by nature. Purposeful by design.
When you bring a Tackussanu piece home, you are not simply decorating. You are investing in a woman's independence, keeping an ancient craft alive, and choosing to care about how something is made.
Beautifully Empowered. Sophistication Made by Hand. Sustainability for the Artisan.
About Our Founder
Jasz Diop is the founder of Tackussanu Senegal. Her work sits at the intersection of cultural preservation, artisan empowerment, and sustainable design — built on the belief that how something is made is as important as what it becomes.
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In her own words
I spent over ten years deeply connected to Senegalese culture — through marriage, through daily life, through the objects that filled our home. When that chapter ended, I had these pieces. Baskets, textiles. Things people always noticed and always asked about. I started researching. What I found was that basket weaving in Senegal is almost entirely done by women. And I learned what many of those women face — I wanted to create something real. Not charity. A direct partnership — where they set the price, where the money reaches them without passing through anyone else's hands, where their craft and their story belong to them.
That is Tackussanu. That is why it exists.Sustainability for the Artisan.