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Tagua Jewelry

All that you can possibly imaging in tagua beaded jewelry and jewelry making beads of tagua. You will find a diverse stock of tagua jewelry such as necklace tagua, beaded earrings, tagua pendants desinged by skillfull ecuadorian handicrafts. You will also find a complete stock of tagua nut beads. We carry products with high quality ends, dying, polished and in a wide selection of colors.

-- A Little History About Tagua --

TAGUA ECUADOR also known as Vegetable Ivory, corozo, or Exotic Ivory, is the dried and polished nuts of several South American palms. Tagua is remarkably similar to animal ivory in both looks and feel. Tagua is durable and easily carved, and it even mimics the porosity of animal ivory. The biggest difference: Elephant do not have to die. Evidently those similarities were not lost on early botanists who named the palm genus Phytelephas-"elephant plant." Versatility is only one of Tagua virtues. It is also infinitely renewable. In a single year, a female Tagua tree can produce 20 pounds of tagua nuts - that's about the amount of ivory on an average female elephant. The elephant, however, yields its ivory only once; the tree continues producing nuts year after year. The idea of using palm nuts as type of ersatz ivory is hardly new; it goes back more than 100 years. In 1865, a ship sailing from South America to Germany used a load of Tagua nuts as ballast. When the vessel docked in Hamburg, curious stevedores began playing with the Tagua and noticed its ivory like characteristics. Tagua quickly became one of Ecuador 's leading exports to Europe. Craftsmen used the nuts to fashion handmade decor pieces and souvenir handicrafts, from tagua chess pieces, tagua figures for decoration, to tagua buttons and tagua umbrella handles. In the early part of this century, Colombia and Ecuador were exporting some 40,000 tons of the material annually to the United States and Europe. After the World War II, competition from an inexpensive new synthetic called plastic wipes out the Tagua trade. Now that the world is waking up to the growing environmental problems which face our planet today and that environmental concerns are getting higher on the world's agenda that ever before, the use of Tagua is getting renewed. Commerce in vegetable ivory decor is helping foster respect for Rain Forests in Ecuador, and it is doing so through the nondestructive exploitation of a renewable resource.

TAGUA IS NOT ONLY USEFUL FOR MAKING BEADED JEWERLY, BUT ALSO IT SAVES ELEPHANTS AND RAIN FORESTS.

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Flame II Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory
Flame II Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory
$23.99
Casual bracelet for the day or night of Tagua Exotic Ivory
Casual bracelet for the day or night of Tagua Exotic Ivory
$11.49
Sequence II Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory
Sequence II Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory
$23.99
Necklace Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
Necklace Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
$3.25
Keyring made of tagua (Exotic Ivory)
Keyring made of tagua (Exotic Ivory)
$4.60
Cellphone Accesory Hanging Moon Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
Cellphone Accesory Hanging Moon Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
$1.99
Jade Necklace and pendants Exotic Ivory Tagua
Jade Necklace and pendants Exotic Ivory Tagua
$23.99
Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
Necklace and pendants Tagua Exotic Ivory KIT
$4.49
Bracelet of Tagua Exotic Ivory
Bracelet of Tagua Exotic Ivory
$3.45
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EcuadorianHands.com is a project that was born as the link between the people of all over the world and the humble handcrafters of rural areas of Ecuador. There are many families distributed in poor communities of rural areas in Ecuador where Tagua, Toquilla fiber for Panama Hats and other raw materials for manufacturing handicrafts grow. Families which are eager to access and share with the world the beauty of their work. Families that are eager to get a better way of living and obtain enough economical resources to give a fair education to their sons.

This project is sustainable thru time. It helps to give a better life to poor people and the most important thing it is to help to preserve the life of our planet.

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