24 inch Painted Gecko Tree of Life - Croix des Bouquets Tonga Textiles employs both men

Tonga Textiles employs both men and women in the community

With brass wire wrapping for an artistic touch

and then a light varnish applied

Mexican women artisans handcraft this Aztec styled pendant from alpaca silver and abalone

24 inch Painted Gecko Tree of Life - Croix des Bouquets Tonga Textiles employs both menThis piece of Haitian metal wall art is 24 inches in diameter. It features a tree of life with geckos, hand cut, embossed and painted. Meet the Artisans When you visit Croix des Bouquets, the area of town known for Haitian metal art in the capital of Port Au Prince, you are met with a cacophony of tink, tink, tink as ball peen hammers strike sheets of steel. The sheets are cut from steel drums colored by oil and other liquids the drums at one time