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Eco-Jewellery Making Kit - Candy

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Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery

Eco-Jewellery Making Kit - Candy

The Candy Eco-Jewellery Making Kit has everything you'll need to make a necklace, 2 pairs of earrings and even a bracelet!

Use this kit to spark your own creativity. Whether you are new to making jewellery or are just needing a little creative nudge.

Remember you are the designer and although we give you some ideas you can create your own, there is no wrong way!

The Eco-Jewellery Making kit includes:

* Acai and Tagua Seeds all sourced from co-operative farms and sustainable forests in the Amazon
* Cotton waxed cord
* 2 pairs of silver hooks
* Instructions

If you have any questions about the kits, or need some assistance during the process, please don't hesitate to get in touch - We would love to hear from you!

By choosing Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery you are supporting The Helping Hand Project. 10% of the profit from this product will be donated to single mothers artisans in Colombia to support their families during COVID-19 pandemic and going forward.

Made in United Kingdom

Vegetable Ivory or Tagua

The colourful and unique designs of Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery come from a material that is neither a vegetable nor ivory, but you wouldn't know it by its name. Vegetable Ivory, or Tagua, is the dried seed from a large, fruited palm tree that is native to Brazil and the tropical rainforests of South America.

It can take forty years for these trees to produce their fruit, making the seeds inside them all the more precious. Each fruit contains between four and nine seeds ranging from the size of an olive to an avocado. The seed's cavity contains a refreshing liquid that, if harvested within six months, turns to a sweet, edible liquid. If left, however, this jelly turns into a hard, white substance similar to that of elephant tusks or animal teeth.

Precious as these seeds are, at Pretty Pink Eco-Jewellery, our ecosystem comes first. That's why the first crop of fruit is left for the "curicas", the birds of the Amazon rainforest. Only after two years is the fruit collected by hand from the forest floor.

Once collected, the seeds are removed from their husks and left to dry in the sun for about three months. Only then is Vegetable Ivory hard enough to be carved, sliced and drilled - much like real ivory - and capable of holding the colourful dyes that make our jewellery so unique. Unlike real ivory, however, Vegetable Ivory is a renewable resource that does not harm our animals or our planet when harvested.