2013

Gourds were used as containers before clay or stone pottery. The hard shell can be carved, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished and made into items like: bowls, masks, musical instruments, and jewelry.

Metamorphic stone mined in jungle area around Riobamba, Ecuador.

Our cotton clothing is produced by Otavalan Indian artisans, and hand embroidered.

The shell of the coconut is carved and polished, or ground into a fine powder and made into a resin to make our jewelry.

Called Adenanthera pavonina in Latin, it is sometimes called the “Seed of Love” because of its bright red color. These seeds grow on Cothe Coralwood Tree.

The large round chapel seed is polished and used in its natural mottled brown state, or dyed in many bright colors for our Tagua and Jungle Jewelry designs.

The oldest ceramics known in the America’s were made between five and six thousand years ago and found in the Andean region along the Pacific coast of Ecuador.

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive, but sometimes with other elements such as phosphorus, manganese, aluminium, or silicon. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, giving its name to the Bronze Age.

Slices of the strong durable stems are used as beads in our jewelry.