Add a touch of color to your ensemble with this eye-catching crescent-shaped Tagua necklace, designed to bring a playful yet elegant vibe to your look.
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Design Feature: Features bold crescent-shaped pieces in a spectrum of colors, strung together in a contemporary choker style.
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Material: Made from high-quality Tagua, known for its durability and lightweight feel, providing a sustainable and eco-friendly fashion choice.
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Size and Dimensions: Measures approximately 17.5 inches with an additional 1-inch extender for a customizable fit.
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Country of Origin: Crafted in the USA using imported Tagua materials, ensuring quality craftsmanship.
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Special Features: Each piece of Tagua is hand-cut, creating unique variations in texture and color, making every necklace one-of-a-kind.
design: A bib-style choker built from eight bold crescent- and half-moon-shaped tagua pieces in a rainbow of jewel tones, linked edge to edge with small silver-tone jump rings for a graphic, contemporary look.
size: Approximately 17.5 inches, plus a 1-inch extender for an adjustable fit.
material: Tagua nut (vegetable ivory) on an alloy chain and findings.
features: hand-cut tagua pieces, color-blocked crescent shapes, adjustable extender chain, lightweight to wear
care: Wipe clean with a soft, dry cloth and store away from moisture, heat, and direct sunlight to protect the tagua's color and finish.
disclaimer: Because each tagua piece is hand-cut and hand-dyed, color, grain, and shape vary slightly from piece to piece, so no two necklaces are exactly alike.
The Story
Tagua is the seed of a palm native to the rainforests of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. Dried and cured, the pale nut hardens to a density close to that of elephant ivory, which is exactly why traders began calling it "vegetable ivory" more than a century ago, carving it into buttons, chess pieces, and trinkets long before plastic took over those markets.
This necklace turns that same dense, carvable nut into bold color. Each piece is cut into a crescent or half-moon, sanded smooth, and saturated with dye, then strung shape to shape into a graphic, contemporary choker — a modern styling built on a much older material tradition.
Because tagua only exists where the palm is left standing, working with it gives the tree more value alive than felled. That's a large part of why tagua craft has grown into a livelihood tied to keeping rainforest intact rather than clearing it.
A piece like this starts as a whole, dried tagua nut, cut by hand into crescent shapes on a small saw or grinder — slow, one nut at a time, since no two are quite the same size or grain. Each cut piece is sanded to a smooth, rounded edge, dyed to its final color, buffed to a glossy finish, then drilled and joined with jump rings into the finished strand.
Craft & Materials
- Made In: USA
- Craft Tradition: Hand-cut tagua
- Ideal For: Anyone who wants a bold, colorful statement necklace for everyday or warm-weather wear
- Wear It With: Let it be the focal point over a simple, solid-color top or dress
- Purpose: Everyday wear, statement accessory, gift
- Metal: Alloy (silver-tone chain and findings)
Questions & Answers
What is tagua?
Tagua is the seed of a palm tree native to South and Central American rainforests. Once dried, it hardens into a dense, ivory-like material that can be cut, sanded, and dyed much like a hardwood or bone.
Is the necklace adjustable?
Yes. It measures about 17.5 inches with a 1-inch extender chain, so you can adjust the fit slightly at the clasp.
Will my necklace look exactly like the one in the photo?
Close, but not identical. Since each tagua piece is hand-cut and hand-dyed, the color and grain of your necklace will vary a little from the photo and from every other one we sell.
How do I take care of it?
Wipe it down with a soft, dry cloth after wear and keep it away from water, perfume, and direct sun so the color stays vibrant.
Is tagua a sustainable material?
Yes. Tagua nuts are harvested from palms that are left standing, so demand for the material supports keeping rainforest intact rather than logging it.
