A bit info about Fair Trade In our company

As we are based in Bangkok Thailand, we got one question that is been asked all the time; "How do you treat your workers?", "Are you a fair trade company?", "Does the workers have health care insurance?" etc...

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Our Company is working 24 days a month, from 8:00 morning to 18:00 in the evening with 1 hour break on noon time.

As we believe that education is very important, we don't hire any worker that is younger then 18 years old.

All our workers are can support themselves and their family as we take care that they will get a fair salary and Health care for them and their kids. For over time, we pay our workers 150% from their regular salary.

We also take care for safety and clean working environment, and we provide safety accessories that will help to prevent accidents.

All our natural seed beads are been bought from farmers in north east of Thailand that is known as a poor area. As before no one ask to buy those seeds they just throw them away or just leave them to rot. We pay the farmers a fair price and accept every quantity that they give as and that way they have extra money to support their family as well.

We are trying to do our best to give our workers the best conditions and make them grow up with us as we hope for a better future for them as well.

Seed that we make handmade jewelry from

On our Handmade jewelry collection we have a great selection of natural seed beads jewelry. So I want to explain a bit about were we receive it from what is there, Thai name and English name (if they have one).

First, all the seed that we have in our collection is growing In Thailand.

As we like to buy all our material from there real source, we go to the country side and found the farmers that have those seed beads in there farm and want to sell it for us instead of let those seed beads rat on the flour or just go to the garbage.
And that way we help them with a little extra income (one of the farmers sold for us 1000 KG. of red seeds in one year so it is not small :) ).

The seed that we work with the most is The Red Sandlewood Seed or Saga Seed (in Thai they call is "Med Ma-Glam Ta Chang" (Elephant's Eye) ). It is grown in tropical areas only so you can find it in south east Asia or in South America . In South America they call "Tento Seed" or "ChoCho seed".

Saga Seed

In northeast of Thailand people eat the seed as a Peanut and also make necklaces from the seeds for good luck.

Another seed that is Abrus precatorius or know as Jequirity or Crab's Eye, red mix with Black is been used for make many of our jewelry. The Name of this seed in Thailand is "Med Ma-Glum Ta Nhoo" or "Ta Dam Ta Dang" (black eye red eye). It is know for his bright red and black colors and grown in north east Thailand.

Crab's Eye Seed

Afzelia Xylocarpa Seed (Med Makha) is a black with Ivory like top that grown in the north of Thailand, it is full inside so it is possible to carve and drill for get many texture and designs. We make from this seed beads - handmade bead bracelets , seed bead necklace, and bead earrings.

Makha Seed

More seed that we use is Called "Med Ma-Kham" (Tamarind seed). It is grown In every part of Thailand and also been eaten as a fried peanut. We make necklaces and bracelets from it. Many Thai friends and customers like to buy them just because they like the idea of making a jewelry from this seed.

Tamarind Seed

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One more seed that we use is Areca Nut (Mahk) this seed is famous with the old lady from the south and north of Thailand with the dark red teeth (this is the seed that they grind and chow most of the day together with the tobacco).

 

Areca Nut

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When we first received the seed from one of our farmer and start to carve them and find out that the seed have an amazing texture. We now make from it hand carved Finger rings pendants and necklace.

Handmade jewelry

Handmade jewelry has been for many years and actually still is the way of artist to show there talent.
In country like Thailand, Indonesia, China, India and most of South East Asia they are also a way to make a living as the material is available all over and many tourist would love to buy it.

We use in our jewelry collection - Natural Material that keeping nature and not killing nature.

We use natural seed beads, sea shells, wood beads and wood carved, natural stone (or synthetic if it is an expensive one), fresh water pearls and more....

We really try that our handmade jewelry collection will be authentic and together with that fashionable. And for this rezone we try to ask our customers for what they think is the next trend. We are doing our on research all our work is done in our factory and that way we can control that there will be no children working or workers abuse.

All the designs you see in our website - www.naturalhandmadejewelry.com was created by A Thai designer that just love her work and love to create new ideas.

So have a look at our website if you have anything you think is missing you are most wellcom to  let us know

Shiva eye shell material and collection

Many people nowadays wear handmade natural jewelry but they don't know what is the material that they are wearing so for that rezone i post this article

Shiva eye shell is a part of the Turban snail and been detached from the snail in an advance part of the snail life.
The name Shiva eye shell comes form the spiral shape that the Shiva eye shell have on one side of it , that is very similar for the third eye of the god Shiva from the Hindu religious.
The other side of the Shiva eye shell is mostly dark green mixed with Orange and gray.

In the last 5-7 years the The Shiva eye shell become a part of every show room for silver jewelry, fantasy jewelry , natural jewelry, and natural handmade jewelry.
Most of thous jewelry are produced in South east Asia especially - Thailand and Indonesia.
For us it is a great experience to work with the Shiva eye shell and to make from it new creative designs and to give it our spacial touch.

You can see our collection of fantasy jewelry and natural handmade jewelry in our website - www.naturalhandmadejewelry.com I am sure you will find it unique and beautiful like i do.

www.naturalhandmadejewelry NEW BLOG

Welcome to www.naturalhandmadejewelry.com new blog.

In here we will share with you about all our updates in the company - new collections,  new materials,
spacial discounts and sale offers.
If you have any info to share with us about Handmade design for jewelry and fashion accessory this is the place to do it and we want to learn from you where is fashion goes.......