Tagua Salt Pepper Shakers | PAIR SET Fair Trade Ecuador

Tagua Salt Pepper Shakers

1 x Fair Trade Ecuador Tagua Carving | Vegan Ivory | SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS These ones are the plain light version. These lovely hand carved shakers make a beautiful, long lasting addition to your table Dimensions 3.5cm x 3.5cm x 5cm approx // 1.4 x 1.4 x 2 inches approx Please not that each is individually carved so there will be minor differences due to the person carving and the natural variation in the nut used. Tagua is a rainforest nut known as vegetable ivory for its likeness to animal ivory. These are seeds that grow in pods called cabezas, from the tagua nut palm tree. Tagua is the world hardest vegeteble product. Tagua’s smooth, hard texture is an ideal medium for carving jewelry, boxes and other figurines or using the whole seed as beads for necklaces and bracelets. Our supplier, an Ecuador-based NGO, counters poverty and deforestation by creating new jobs that depend on conservation and responsible forest management. The organization works with 23 local artisans, mostly working in home-based workshops to create several, beautiful objects from tagua nuts. These nuts grow year-round in Ecuador and can be harvested without causing any harm to the rainforest. This makes them a highly sustainable product, protects elephants and provides meaningful on-going work for the local people who harvest them. reserved.