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Calabash Heart Necklace & Earring Set- Fair Trade- Aborigines
Calabash Heart Necklace & Earring Set- Fair Trade- Aborigines
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Our Large Heart Calabash necklace and earring set is a beautiful accent for your Valentine's Day or Year-Round. They are hand-painted on pieces of calabash and covered with a clear finish. The necklaces have an adjustable knot closure so you can wear them at the length you wish. Our earrings have a sterling silver hook coil wire.
Calabash refers to a fruit vine, a tropical tree, or the dried shell of a bottle gourd. When harvested young it is used as a vegetable for consumption but when harvested old its dried shell can be used for a variety of things, such as this lovely hand-painted necklace and earring set.Â
- pendant 3-1/2'' long x 4'' wide
- adjustable knot cord 16-1/4'' drop length
- earrings 1-1/2'' long x 1-1/2'' wide, 2-5/8'' drop length
- sterling silver hooks
Please read our extended description below by clicking on "About the Artisans" for more information on how this beautiful jewelry is made, and for more information on the artists who make them.Â
About the Artisans
About the Artisans
 When you visit Croix des Bouquets, the area of town known for Haitian metal art in the capital of Port-Au-Prince, you are met with a cacophony of tink, tink, tink as ball peen hammers strike sheets of steel. The sheets are cut from steel drums colored by oil and other liquids the drums at one time held. The process of turning sheets of metal into beautiful wall art is all done by hand, from cutting holes that become edges of trees and leaves, to accenting each lizard with a texture of scales, to painting or lacquering the final design. The artists are proud of their work, signing the pieces on the back side, leaving a raised, reversed signature on the front.
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