BaSE was founded in 1992 to coordinate the handicraft activity present in the area gravitating on Khulna (South West of Bangladesh).
In doing so BaSE provides a chance to the groups which are out of the main stream of help.

From 1972 to 1977 Handicrafts Activities started in various villages of Bangladesh with the help and cooperation of different Organisations present in Bangladesh.
For the South West area the main problem was the very difficult communication with the Capital, where the coordinating NGO's had their head-offices.
In 1977 a few groups of our area managed to get in touch with some Buyer Organisation (mainly European).
One of these groups (Bhabarpara Pat Kutir Shilpo), organised as Registered Cooperative Society, obtained the Export Permit and started exporting directly through the nearby Port of Mongla.
In 1978 a commettee was formed, to coordinate the activity of all the groups present on the area and to share the export facilities. A few of the Buyers came to visit us and started sending us joint orders of handicrafts, which were exported using the Export Permit of Bhabarpara Pat Kutir Shilpo.
Around 1985, our main Buyer at the time (Sir John Ltd.) suggested that we organise in a proper way and he offered to bear the expenses for a printed Catalogue which would include the material of all the producer groups involved. To collect all the photos and prepare a detailed price list took us more time than expected, also because of the constant increase of the number of producers' groups to whom the cooperation was extended. But this was the step that brought us to become BaSE. Joint orders of handicrafts were coming from the buyers, compelling us to organise ourselves in a stable way.
In 1992 the name of BaSE was adopted to underline the existence of this new entity, although the export paper work was done in the name of Bhabarpara Pat Kutir Shilpo, one of the founding groups.
Since then BaSE has an office, where managing committee meetings are held regularly, and a store, where to collect the parcels coming from the different producers' groups and where to prepare the shipments.
On behalf of Bhabarpara Pat Kutir Shilpo, BaSE keeps in touch with the producers' groups during the preparation of the orders (although most of the duty of quality control and packing is left to the groups themselves), arranges for the payments to all groups (in Taka, Bangladesh currency) using a Revolving Fund, while waiting for the actual proceeds from the export transaction, and has the delicate task of preparing the export papers, which are checked by Bank and Customs.
Finally in 1999 BaSE decided to have the organisation recognised by the Government by registering it under the Social Welfare Department of Bangladesh with the name Bangladesh Hoshto Shilpo Ekota Sheba Shongshtha (BaSE) (Reg. no. Khulna / 769 / 99). In the same year BaSE applied for and obtained the membership of IFAT.