Emanate subtle charm with this pastel grey-green tagua tube bracelet. With three rows of beads, this bracelet is a stunning way to adorn your wrist and make a sustainable choice.
- Features three rows of tagua tube beads
- Size: Fits 7"-7.5" wrists
- Material: Sustainable Tagua nut
- Country of Origin: Ecuador
- Colored with organic vegetable dyes
- Eco-friendly and sustainable materials
Disclaimer: Due to the natural origin of the beads, sizes and colors may vary slightly. Textural variations are common.
design: A wide stretch bracelet built from three parallel rows of smooth, softly tapered tagua tube beads in a muted pastel grey-green, divided at intervals by dark contrasting spacer discs.
size: Fits 7"-7.5" wrists.
material: Sustainable tagua nut, colored with organic vegetable dyes.
features: Three-row tube bead construction, pastel grey-green vegetable dye finish, stretch fit, sustainable plant-based material
care: Wipe clean with a soft, dry cloth and keep away from water, lotion, and perfume to protect the dye and natural finish.
disclaimer: Because the beads come from a natural nut, slight variation in size, color, and surface texture between pieces is normal and part of the material's character.
The Story
This bracelet is made from tagua, the seed of a palm native to Ecuador's coastal and Amazonian forests. Once dried, the nut hardens into a dense, ivory-colored material that carves, sands, and polishes much like animal ivory — which is exactly why it became known as "vegetable ivory" and was exported by the ton for shirt and coat buttons through the early twentieth century, before plastics took over that market.
Today tagua work in Ecuador has shifted from buttons to jewelry, giving artisan workshops a market for a renewable, forest-grown material rather than a mined or animal-sourced one. Harvesting tagua also gives standing palm forest an economic value, which is part of why cooperatives promote it as a sustainable alternative within the region's carving trade.
The soft grey-green shown here comes from an organic vegetable dye bath rather than a synthetic pigment, which is why the tone reads muted and slightly uneven from bead to bead — a natural material taking color the way natural materials do, not a printed or painted finish.
