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ABOUT WAYWYOOD FAIR TRADE PRODUCTS

All jewellery sold by Waywood Fair Trade originates from gifted artisans in Latin America and beyond.  Everything is fairly traded and made using locally sourced, sustainable materials.

The range includes exclusive dichroic glass; classic torque and bracelet sets; abalone shell bracelets, earrings and sets; chunky bangles plus a huge variety of precious and semi-precious stones set in sterling silver from Mexico.  There is also a wide variety of ethnic jewellery, including earrings made from 20^th Century Peruvian coins and Amazonian earrings made from seeds and shells.

Jewellery on this page:

Silver Jewellery (Mexico)
Glass Jewellery (Mexico and India)
Shell Jewellery (Mexico)
Ethnic Tribal Jewellery (Peru)
Tagua Jewellery (Amazonian Ecuador)
Bead Jewellery (Peru)
Brass, Lapis & Bamboo (Chile)

Silver Jewellery (Mexico)

Our sterling silver jewellery includes classic earring designs, silver ball earrings and Mexican calado (Spanish meaning 'open-worked') earrings where the design is cut from the silver producing a very special effect.  There are also earrings set with semi precious stones and dreamcatcher earrings, with a matching dreamcatcher necklace.

Opal silver jewellery includes pendants on sterling silver chains as well as link bracelets.  Link bracelets are also available set with turquoise, malachite and other stones.

'Beautiful craftsmanship; beautiful jewellery.  Need say no more!'

EMA; Customer; London, UK.

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Glass Jewellery (Mexico and India)

Waywood Fair Trade's range of unusual handmade glass jewellery includes handmade Venetian style glass drops from India, supplied with contrasting coloured organza ribbons and Indian glass pendants on sterling silver chains.

Our Mexican glass jewellery, designed exclusively by Emma H de Moronatti in her Taxco workshop in Mexico, includes dichroic earrings, pendants, cufflinks and bracelets, all in wonderful colour combinations. Her popular opalo range catches the light beautifully and includes pendants, earrings and bracelets.  Emma's water and glass ranges use brilliant yet subtle colour combinations; the earrings are set in sterling silver.

Her beach pendants include tiny shells set in glass

'My husband loved his dichroic cufflinks. They're so different to anything else around and look great with his business suit. Thanks!'

BC; Customer, UK.

Shell Jewellery (Mexico)

In addition to Emma's beach range, we also supply abalone (sometimes called paua shell) jewellery, with its universal appeal through the beautiful colour combinations found naturally in the shell: different angles produces different light refraction and myriad colours.  Earrings, bracelets, large, double sided disc pendants for wearing on silver chains or torques and matching abalone pendant and earrings sets are available.

Clip On Earrings:  We are pleased to offer handmade, clip-on earrings from the beautiful Mexican jewellery town of Taxco.

'Looked everywhere for clip on earrings and thought they'd vanished completely, so I was really pleased to find yours. I always feel good wearing them. Thank you that I don't have to get my ears pierced to look good when I go out!'

JQ; Customer; Leicestershire, UK

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Ethnic Tribal Jewellery (Peru)

These earrings bear testament to the incredibly innovative spirit of the Latin American craftsmen and women.

All items are handmade in Peru from natural products including bone, bamboo, wild seeds, coconut shell, quills, shell and semi-precious stones.  Combined, these elements create unique, unusual, stylish, earrings.

Tagua Jewellery (Amazonian Ecuador)

Tagua jewellery is handmade in the workshops of the Tituana family, Rio Napo, Ecuadorian Amazon. Tagua, also called vegetable ivory, originates from the nuts of the unusual spiny seed pod produced by Phytelephas, a palm tree native to the rainforests of Latin America. Phytelephas aequatorialis is the Ecuadorean Ivory Palm which has a woody trunk and can grow to a height of 20 metres. The tree produces very long pinnate (feather-like or multi-divided) leaves.

Tagua palms are dioecious (male and female reproductive structures are found in separate plants) and it is the female trees which produce large brown conical fruits, each about the size of a grapefruit and covered in a horned husk.  This husk usually contains four seeds. The immature seeds contain sweet edible pulp whilst the mature seeds are harder than wood and encased in a bonelike shell. The endosperm (tissue produced in the seeds of most flowering plants around the time of fertilization) is a white hemicellulose material (crystalline, strong and resistant to breakdown) that is so hard it can be polished and carved like ivory. In fact, the plant's genus name Phytelephas literally means 'elephant plant'. Three other species in this genus are sources of vegetable ivory as well.

The edible immature seeds are often dispersed by rainforest rodents such as agoutis and in some rural areas, the trees are used to attract rodents which are captured for their meat.

The palms are increasingly cultivated as a cash crop with international conservation organizations paying farmers for vegetable ivory as an economic incentive to stop unnecessary deforestation and leave the rainforests as they are.

Tagua palms provide thatching, food and even medicinal products but their most economically valuable asset is that tagua looks just like ivory when it is carved, so, it can be used to produce jewellery with the same wonderful translucent and aesthetic properties of ivory without any animals being harmed!  Tagua also retains dyes beautifully so jewellery can also be created in a range of vibrant colours.

Our tagua jewellery includes different styles of necklace, earrings and bracelets with natural and brightly coloured options available in most designs.

'I hate ivory jewellery (or anything ivory!) but I love your tagua jewellery. Looks beautiful and contemporary without any animals being harmed. 10/10'

FN; Customer; UK

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Bead Jewellery (Peru)

We offer a range of ceramic bead earrings.

All beads are individually made and painted by hand and fired in workshops in the Cuzco region of Peru.

Beads of different shapes, sizes and colours are artistically combined with wire to create unusual, unique and attractive earrings.

'Really different. Beautifully made. Always get noticed.'

AP; Customer; Derby, UK.

Brass, Lapis & Bamboo (Chile)

This range of our fair trade jewellery includes a collection of earrings made primarily from brass.

Brass, lapis and bamboo earrings are lovingly created by hand in the jewellery workshops of Santiago, Chile.

Meanwhile, artisans painstakingly shape redundant 20^th Century brass coins in Peru to produce a popular and unique range of earrings.

'Would have expected to pay 3 or 4 times the price in town. Brilliant value. Well made. And I'm supporting something worthwhile rather than just a commercial chain.'

JR: Customer; Nottingham, UK.

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