Floral Lacquered Mango Wood Boxes (Pair) - Violets Winter25 who engrave a coconut shell

who engrave a coconut shell with an openwork butterfly motif

this bracelet reveals extravagant silver arabesques

appreciating both traditional life and modern apparel

alternating round blue beads with multicolored cylinders

Ranm Ixoqi' means 'woman's heart' in the Mayan Kaqchikel language

Floral Lacquered Mango Wood Boxes (Pair) - Violets Winter25 who engrave a coconut shellCarving mango wood into spheres, Nantana Sompamitre creates a pair of delightful boxes. A violet motif adorns their smooth, lacquered surfaces. Sompamitre carves the desired shape and coats it with lacquer. Once dried it is polished, and another coat is applied, up to twenty times, before as many six coats of pure lacquer are present. The final layer is polished with powdered fired clay. Then the motifs are etched with a technique called lai kad (dug