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Small Calabash Bracelet- Handmade-Fair Trade-Colombia

$21.00 USD

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Our Small Calabash Bracelets are bright and beautiful with several designs. They are hand-painted on pieces of calabash and covered with a clear finish. They have an adjustable knot closure.

Measures 6'' to 12'' long x 1'' wide
Abstract, Flower, Geometric, Rhombus
Adjustable knot closure

Handmade in Colombia and fair trade imported.

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.

Aborigines Artisan Story-Colombia

Aborigines is a fair trade organization consisting of artisans from the Colombian Caribbean coast, heirs of the Mokaná legacy which they seek to preserve through the production of accessories that represent the knowledge of a culture that refuses to disappear.

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.