SKU: 40015-earrings

These artistic earrings are gems of art and provide the perfect blend of old-world tradition and modern fashion.  An assortment of colored stones, shells and glass are geometrically designed in a .5-1" pewter settings.  All styles dangle from silver French wires and measure 1"-2" including hooks.

Each pair of earrings is unique, therefore please expect variations in color, shape and geometric design.  Photo shown represents a sample of what to expect.

ABOUT THE WOMEN/YOUR PURCHASE SUPPORTS
"We are a native women artisan group who decided to form a production cooperative. We are the original Designers and Producers. As Artisans, we have a very old training, coming from our prior generations. Our home town of Tecalpulco is where the popular Abalone Jewelry was developed. We are proud of every piece that we create."

Artesanas Campesinas is a new project wherein jewelry and other crafts are purchased directly from Fair Trade artisans in Mexico, without exploitative middle men typical in the import/export industries.  Specifically, the jewelry-making villages of Tecalpulco and Taxco El Viejo house the artisans who benefit from A Better Footprint's jewelry purchases.

The idea of an artisan-direct marketing system is part of a continuing long-term effort to re-establish a successful artisan economics in the Taxco area cottage industry. Local handcraft and .925 silver jewelry production has, over the past fifteen years, been increasingly blasted by the effects of globalization. Much of the vibrant artisanal silver industry has been swamped with low-cost oriental products. Tens of thousands of crafts people from these Mexican villages previously have been forced to migrate to the US, seeking to work, often illegally, as laborers.

Now, the women who have remained in small villages have created an original marketing system which revolutionizes the process by which handcrafts in the third world are brought to the market and distributed to the public. They call it the Artisan Owned Directed Distribution Model (AODDM).

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