Colorful seed jewelry from the forests of South America
Seeds of extraordinary beauty are produced by a variety of plants growing in the Amazonian rainforest, across the Andean uplands, and along the lush Pacific coasts of Colombia and Ecuador.
This website celebrates these seeds and their use in necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and belts. These accessories are worn by celebrities like Shakira to women living in remote rural areas where the seeds are gathered by hand. On this website you will find pictures of some of these seeds and the jewelry they inspire.
Here are some reasons to wear seed jewelry
- Build a collection of original handmade accessories at very affordable prices
- Make a statement against sweatshop jewelry produced in China and India. Authentic seed jewelry is produced by individual craftspeople in their homes or small shops--not in sweatshop factories.
- Wear products from a renewable resource. Colored seeds symbolize nature's bounty and are gathered without damaging the forests that produce them.
- Support and encourage traditional handicrafts.
- Help desperately poor women in rural South America earn a better living in their home communities. Poverty in rural Latin America is the primary cause of immigration to over-crowded city slums.
