Natural chambira woven pot with nut top - handmade by Peruvian artisan
This elegant woven bowl is are the perfect little basket to hold a set of coasters or other knick-knacks in your dining room table, living room, office or bedroom. This woven pot was skillfully handcrafted with natural chambira palm fiber by a campesina artisan from the village of Amazonas on the Maranon River in the Peruvian Amazon. It has an Amazon nut on top and on the clasp.
The artisan's name, community and the plant used to make it are written on a tag that accompanies the craft. Your purchase helps provide a sustainable livelihood to the artisans who make these gorgeous handicrafts in addition to helping preserve the rainforests by promoting crafts made with sustainable resources.
This pot is 5.25" inches in diameter and 2.5" tall with a 4 inch diameter opening.
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Support native artisans & rainforest in the Amazon
Amazon forest loss is driving species to extinction, aggravating global warming, and robbing people of unique medicines, foods and other benefits. Cutting and burning forests is often more profitable than conserving them, so some native communities in northern Peru have illegally logged and grown coca and other cash-crops to escape poverty.
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