Tagua Nut Vegetable Ivory Jewelry
All about this Eco-Friendly Product
Artesanias Garman
#3 Atahualpa & Cristobal Colon
Otavalo, Ecuador
www.
otavalomarket-ecuador.
com
Email: otavalomarket@gmail.
com
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The tagua nut is a dried seedpod from an Amazonian palm...
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Tagua Nut Vegetable Ivory Jewelry
All about this Eco-Friendly Product
Artesanias Garman
#3 Atahualpa & Cristobal Colon
Otavalo, Ecuador
www.
otavalomarket-ecuador.
com
Email: otavalomarket@gmail.
com
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The tagua nut is a dried seedpod from an Amazonian palm tree that grows in the tropical rain
forests of South America.
The nut from the
tagua plant is known as “vegetable ivory” for
its creamy white appearance, virtually identical to the ivory taken from elephant tusks.
The
tagua “ivory nut” is used in jewelry, beads, buttons and many handicrafts produced throughout Ecuador, employing approximately 50,000
people.
Resembling the finest ivory in texture
and color, it is just slightly softer.
At the Otavalo market and indeed throughout
Ecuador, you can find all types of decorative
items made with this material: small decorative
animals, bracelets, earrings, necklaces, rings,
buttons, back scratchers, pendants, Christmas
ornaments and beads.
Jewelry made from tagua
is popular with women
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