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Calypso Tagua Necklace
Calypso Tagua Necklace

Bold and ready to party, string on the lightweight Calypso Tagua Necklace to dress up a simple outfit or next-level your night out. Made from "vegetable ivory," a plant-based substitute for elephant ivory, this sustainably harvested seed is also often used as an eco-friendly substitute for plastics. Is there anything this seed can't do?

HANDCRAFTED IN ECUADOR

  • Material: tagua, waxed cotton cord
  • Includes two layered tiers of tagua slices in royal and light blues with coral accents on black cotton waxed cord with an adjustable knot closure. The shorter strand measures 13.5 " long and the larger strand measures ~16 " long. Necklace measures approximately 36 " long at the longest adjustable length, including adjustable knot closure.
  • A stunning, plastic‒free alternative to resin jewelry
  • 36":L
  • Coordinates with the Pacifico Tagua Earrings.
  • Handcrafted in Ecuador

SKU: 8407050

THE MAKERS

MCCH (Maquita Chuchunchic Comercializando Como Hermanos), meaning "Let us join hands and do business as brothers" in Quechua and Spanish languages, is an Ecuadorian cooperative marketing NGO. MCCH works with craft groups scattered around the country, helping them with production, design and marketing. For many artisans, craft income supplements meager agricultural earnings. In addition to handicraft sales, MCCH works with farm collectives exporting fair trade cocoa, with ecotourism and with women’s cooperatives. MCCH was begun in 1985 by a group of church communities in response to rising poverty and inflation in Ecuador. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from MCCH since 1995.
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