A Touch of Jade

Description

A Touch of Jade

Designed using....
Fine Quality Jewelry Wire
Hill Tribe Silver Beads and hook clasp
Sterling Silver accent beads
Sparkling Jade Natural stone beads
16" in length

Stunning. Stones are mystifying.

Thanks for looking. Custom orders accepted.

Boogie on!!!

I purchase my Hill Tribe Silver from a company based in Thailand. They do not "employ" any Karen artisans rather, all of the products are purchased and ordered directly from a Karen artisan and their families. All of the fabulous products are done in each artisan's village-home.

...In comparison to many western cultures, Karens are very poor, hard working people with limited education and knowledge of the outside world. The few villages that have created these astonishing silver products have slowly improved their standard of living; from wooden huts with grass shingles and open-air toilets to wooden homes on stilts to what we now see much of: brick with cement floor tiling-homes and an indoor-toilet. Needless to say, these homes are often shared by several generations of fathers, mothers and siblings that all have or eventually will take part in creating these wonderful silver beads, pendants, charms, toggles and many more unique silver accessories to worldly desire.

For as long as we have known the Karens or any other ethnic hill tribe minority, we have always recognized them as being shy and with low self-confidence. KAFA program aims to help build confidence in each family's working habitat, particularly in the younger generation so that eventually each family is knowledgeable enough to sell their products directly to the demanding market. each family will always have their own signature line

Thai Karen hill tribe silver is created from high content silver in which the silver is not mixed with any other metal except the solder used to join the pieces together.

Added on Sep 24, 2009