Natural necklace using hand-crafted tagua and asahi seeds, dyed orange, skilfully arranged into a flower design. With adjustable leather thong fastening.
Our tagua petals necklace is made from pieces of the nut from tagua palms that grow in Peru. Locally known as vegetable ivory, when dried out the nuts can be carved just like elephant ivory and are often dyed before been used for jewellery, buttons and figurines.
Fair Trade Producer Details
Allpa is a company set up to market crafts for producers around Peru. Based in Lima, it gives advances, loans and design advice. Also it does training on costs calculation and quality control.
In the last years it has developed a programme to follow fair trade compliance (and support) with all the workshops they work with. Traidcraft is now a relatively small purchaser, but was one of Allpa’s original two export customers, who helped the organisation develop the skills to get into the commercial market. Find out more about Allpa & fair trade in Peru »
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