Fairtrade Eco Friendly Seed spiral bracelet

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Beautiful handmade eco-friendly Spiral Seed Bracelet. Natural Colors.

This bracelet its made from Amazonian seeds found in the Colombian rainforest. The seeds when ripe, fall to the ground and are gathered and dried for up to four weeks. The orange seed is called "Chocho Naranja" and orange is its natural color. The black seed its called "chirilla". The inside of the strap is wire metal. It gets the shape of your wrist so it fits most wrists. All nuts, fruits and seeds are eco-friendly and fairtrade and imported from Colombia.

Chirilla - "One of the most commonly used beads in natural seed jewelry comes from a beautiful wildflower of the Caribbean region and tropical America. It is commonly called "Indian shot" and it belongs to the mostly tropical, monocotyledonous Canna Family (Cannaceae). This lovely wildflower is common along roadsides and open fields throughout the West Indies and Lesser Antilles. The spherical black seeds of Indian shot are so hard and perfectly round that they resemble oversized BB's or buckshot from a shotgun shell. In fact, they are so dense that they readily sink in water. Under a hand lens the seeds are minutely-pitted, like the surface of pocked metal. The seeds are called "Indian shot" because of their superficial resemblance to lead shot ammunition of the 18th and 19th centuries."