April 23, 2024
Wounaan Embera Tagua Vase Basket Etching Carving-Panama 3.69852
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If you have questions, please feel free to call me on Skype. ( Folks, I am going to list some of the best tagua Basket - Vase carvings I have ever had. These were done by Joel Carpio, one of the best tagua carvers in Panama. He hollows out the basket or vase once he has carved it out of a tagua nut. He does it by hand, no lathe. Then he etches the design onto the piece and finally it is painted. Only the best carvers are good at all three skills. Each vase is about 1.5 to 2 inches tall. There are less expensive examples in my eBay store but these are the best. The Tagua Story Throughout Panama, Ecuador, and much of Central and South America, native artists create beautiful works of art from "vegatable ivory", the tagua nut. The tree from which it falls, the Ivory Nut Palm, grows primarily in the Central American Rainforest. The nuts, when dried, are able to be carved into beautiful ivory-like sculptures. The durability of the tagua and it's similarity to animal's ivory has been known for a long time. The local artists sometimes leave them in their natural off-white color, and sometimes color them with delicate painting or inking with special inks. Regardless, they are always beautiful. Imagine what goes on in the mind of one of these artists as they look at the nut for the first time and try to visualize what this small stone
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