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Hand Painted Lagoon Plate

Quina & Cantuta

£89


A true piece of art with iconography by Amazon indigenous communities.

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    Product description

    A true piece of art with iconography by Amazon indigenous communities.

    The Hand-painted Lagoon Plate makes an eye catching addition to any space. Its delicate and intriguing drawings flow beautifully on the solid hand-crafted structure.The Artistic Collection is inspired by the Yanesha Iconography. Each design depicts language and harmony that these communities have learnt from nature. The asthetics and the traditional technique of the painting on the wood combine to produce true pieces of art which are enhanced by the mysticism of the Peruvian Amazon ancestral wisdom.

    Piece independently hand-crafted. Colour and pattern may vary.

    Variations

    Harvested from well-managed sustainable forests by the Yanesha indigenous communities of Peru's central Amazon. The Yanesha artisans have a deep relationship of care and respect for the wood and products they create. This is one of the main sources of economic development for their families and community.

    Dimensions

    H3.81 x W33.02 x D18.2cm, approx 350g

    Made from

    100% Hand-carved wooden bowl.Higuerilla wood from sustainable managed forests.Kiln-dried. Not to be used as a food serving container. Bee-wax finish.

    Our woods are harvested from managed Amazon Forests in the Central High Peruvian Amazon, where approximately only two trees are harvested per Hectare of Forestland, and then new saplings grow in their place through natural regeneration. This is very different to Northern Boreal Forests, where forests are clear cut, because they are home to homogeneous species, and then the bare land needs replanting. Tropical Rainforests host a much larger variety of biodiversity and have tremendous heterogeneity of tree species within one hectare of forest. Our partner's forest management policy requires that the area of forest harvested every year be different, and therefore the variety of species that are available for harvesting in these ever changing geography of the Palcazu Valley, finds us different species, or even very different characteristic of woods within the same species. Our most common wood is Higuerilla, and an Higuerilla harvested in one location of the valley can have very different colouring and characteristics than another Higuerilla specimen harvested elsewhere. Sometimes the wood is two tone, sometimes the two tones contrast dramatically, other times the wood is quite light throughout, and the variations keep going.

    Product code

    402676


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    Quina & Cantuta

    Surrey, GB