Woven butterfly tie pins & fascinators - made by Peruvian Amazon artisans
These pins will provide a striking accent from nature to your hat, lapel or bag. It is beautifully made with chambira palm fiber by one of the most talented artisans in the Peruvian Amazon. Current models include the blue-banded morpho, scarlet peacock, green-banded urania, and the iconic monarch butterfly that exemplifies the wonder of nature and the risk of tropical deforestation.
The top of these barrettes are woven with natural chambira palm fiber harvested from the artisans' forest fields. The quality pin is easily opened and closed to attach to your favorite item of clothing or accessory.
These designs are also available in flat barrettes, pony tail barrettes
Please remember that each hand made craft is unique and may vary slightly from the photo of the model shown in this listing.
Sizes: Monarch (med): 3.75" x 2", Swallowtail (med): 4" x 2.25"; Morpho (med): 3.5" x 2"; Morpho (small): 2.75" x 1.5"; Scarlet peacock (small): 2.5" x 1.75"; Urania (med): 3" x 2.5".
The safety pin on the medium-size models is 1.4" wide. The pin on some of the small size models is 1" wide.
Models: EBAI
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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