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Hand Crafted Felt Ball Trivets from Nepal: Round Chakra, Oranges - Global Groove
Hand Crafted Felt Ball Trivets from Nepal: Round Chakra, Oranges - Global Groove
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These felted trivets add fun pops of color while protecting your dinner table. Handmade in Nepal by a women's cooperative.
- Size: Approximately 8" in diameter
- Charka Meaning: Sacral Chakra, "Happiness Inside"
- Care: Spot clean as needed. Do not machine wash or dry.
The Art of Felting:
The first step to creating these beautiful felt pieces begins with gathering some of the world’s finest sheep’s wool from New Zealand. Making felted wool is an ages-old, time-consuming process of bonding fabric with fiber. This is a physical job where artisans scrub, rub, roll, and rinse the wool again and again with soapy water.
Once the wool is bound into a sheet and the desired thickness is complete, the felt is laid out to dry. From there, the felt wool is cut and reworked into many complex shapes and designs. The many sheets of wool might merge several colors to create patterns and layers. This takes a well-trained, talented artisan and is a true labor of love. The results are colorful, one-of-a-kind textiles that are stunning to behold.
About the Artisans
About the Artisans
Global Groove Life is a Fair Trade company that emerged from a commitment to global lifestyle. GGL designs, develops, produces and sources fairly traded lifestyle products with a pledge to the sustainability of production and the cultural heritage of artisan co-ops in Thailand and Nepal. Inspired by its people, landscapes, colors, flavors, the very scents that we inhale. We exhale to create stimulating products symbolic of our "homes" across the globe. Our business practices stem from a drive to unite global communities that span every culture and geographic boundary through co-creation, education and values based on human rights and dignity. GGL encourages the journey because the knowledge, acceptance and understanding of different ways, people and ideas is the very colorful road to a respectful, safer, and kinder world.
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