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Jewish Healing Flags
Jewish Healing Flags

Inspired by Tibetan tradition where prayers are taken by the wind, these Jewish Healing Prayer Flags feature a hamsa, a hand image that symbolizes protection, strength, and blessings with calls to care for your body, heart, mind, and spirit. A beautiful gift and addition to a sukkah, backyard, room in your home to invite blessings in every day. Handcrafted by skilled artisans at Mahaguthi collective. 85% of the 1,000 artisans across 150 workshops are women who work in their homes in rural, mountainous regions, creating beautiful, handloomed goods.

HANDCRAFTED IN NEPAL

  • Materials: 100% cotton flags in a lokta paper envelope
  • Measures: Each flag is 5.5"W x 6.5"H on an 18.5"L cord with 0.4" space between flags
  • Colors: Lavender, turquoise, purple, and gold on a cream‒colored cord
  • Notes: Flags are sewn to the cord and are not free sliding. Each set of blessing flags comes in a handcrafted lokta paper envelope, screen‒printed in black with the artist's name and story of the flags' meaning.
  • Handcrafted in Nepal

SKU: 5909100

THE MAKERS

Mahaguthi markets the handicrafts of more than 1,000 Nepali artisans working in 150 workshops. Most of the artisans are from remote and mountainous areas; among them 85 percent are women who use traditional craft skills while working in their own home. Mahaguthi focus is to promote the well-being of artisans, to provide employment and to embrace and promote the principles of fair trade. Artisans receive medical and education allowances, paid leave and maternity leave. Mahaguthi parent organization was founded in 1926 with the objective of making the poor self-reliant. The founder was exiled to India and worked with Mahatma Gandhi before returning to Nepal to do rehabilitation work with women and their children. Mahaguthi began marketing crafts in 1984 to support a program for destitute women and children. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from Mahaguthi since 2000.
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