Quito Tagua Bracelet

Description

Bold and beautiful. Indulge in this Tagua nut bracelet made with delicately carved natural vegetable ivory. These bracelets are stylish and super comfortable.

Organic, vegan and biodegradable 

Our jewellery is natural handmade and one of a kind. They will typically have a slight colour, texture and size variation from the pictured pieces.

The amazing Tagua journey

Your unique, hand-crafted jewellery began it's journey as a thirst quenching liquid contained in pods within a large Tagua fruit growing naturally in the Ecuadorian or Colombian rainforest. The pod was collected from the forest floor by a local co-operative and dried. The liquid it contained congealed to a sweet edible gelatine before fully hardening, after a month or so, to a substance with similar characteristics to ivory! 

Coloured with fruit and vegetable juices for several hours the nuts were shaped by hand. Finally they are polished by turning in large drums containing wood pieces and other Tagua.

The beads were then shipped to independent designers in France or the UK where they were assembled into beautiful, bold, chic, varied, Fairtrade and eco-friendly Tagua jewellery that you see today in our Gallery.