This basket is well made, very sturdy. I use it to store a throw blanket in my living room. It fits the whole blanket while still exposing the beauty of the blanket. I used to just throw the blanket in a heap beside my favorite chair, but I kept tripping over it. This larger basket solved the tripping problem. I have not yet used the equally strong smaller basket but I am sure I will find a purpose for it...I have thought of many, many purposes rather than too few. Both baskets pride themselves on being a plain weaving pattern. They are not all frilled up with designs or other busy stuff,  so they do not over shadow the baskets and what’s in them.