Metal Jewellery Box with Elephant Designs

Beautifully decorated, Fair Trade silver-coloured aluminium jewellery box with four elephant designs on the lid.  Inside, it has a blue velvet lining and a metal clasp for fastening. Ideal to store your Fair Trade jewellery, or other small, precious objects.  The lid is hinged and opens via a clasp at the front. There are 4 black rubber cushions on the base to protect surfaces from marking.

 The design is produced by a specialist die/mould maker. A reverse image of a design is transfered on to brass blocks and then brass dies are pressed on to pieces of aluminium using a power press. The embossed pieces are then delicately beaten using a wooden mallet to smooth them out. Finally, the aluminium sheets are attached to wooden "skeletons" to make these beautiful items.

This Fair Trade jewellery box was handmade in India.

Dimensions  width 20cm  x  depth 15cm x  height 6cm approx

 
Established in 1975 as a Fair Trade christian organisation to provide a marketing outlet to individual craftsman. In Sanskrit, Asha means “hope”.

India, which is one of the largest handcraft-producing countries in the world, offers an almost unlimited range of crafts and products. However, these beautiful items can be produced in conditions of abject poverty, with craft workers in bondage to moneylenders.

Asha gives marketing support and technical assistance to groups of small producers and craftsmen and women. By purchasing directly from the workers and giving generous advances, they increase income levels and help groups become self-sufficient. 

A team of christian welfare workers are employed to help producers with business concerns and issues.
Asha welfare workers are stationed at different producer groups and co-operatives, sharing skills and extending medical help and education to the workers and their families. Technical training is also provided to increase efficiency and to encourage the growth and development of cottage industries.

Asha encourage their artisans to plant trees in place of those which are used to make their handcarved wooden products.

Asha Handicrafts produce our beautiful Silver Metal Box with Elephant Designs