Natural fiber photo albums, 'Bright Toucan' (pair) Review
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Natural fiber photo albums, 'Bright Toucan' (pair) Feature
- Handmade by Dewa Gede Alit
- Ships from Bali within 7 days
NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Painted by hand, cheerful pinewood toucans survey their rainforest home. Transforming the gifts of nature into art, Dewa Gede Alit creates a pair of photo albums. The front covers are decorated with banana bark and green kupu-kupu leaves. She binds the books with a coconut stick and cords of agel grass. Both albums have 20 pages of rice straw paper. The large album holds four 4 x 6 inch vertical photos per page. The smaller album displays two 4 x 6 inch horizontal photos per page. Artisan Info: The artistry of Dewa Gede Alit has been featured in the Chicago Tribune. Born on the island of Bali in 1954, Dewa Gede Alit is an artist impassioned by village life. He hails from a community caressed by cool, fresh air, where clove trees grow abundantly. During the harvest, the price of cloves is rather expensive, but there is a season when the price drops and growers suffer from this decline. The creation of clove items, such as boxes, baskets, serving trays, and candleholders, allows the clove market to achieve a certain level of consistency, benefiting the villagers. In 1994 Alit led a group of farmers from his village to an exhibition of clove works at the Agribusiness and Agriculture Department in Jakarta. When he has time, he trains the younger generation in how to make basketry.
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Sep 05, 2011 21:09:10
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