Pyroengraved Leather Bracelets Pyrography ("writing with fire") is the art of creating designs with a hot poker. All of these bracelets were created with a heated piece of metal held in a wooden shaft. All the leather pieces used for these bracelets are actually scraps: leatherworking shops in Medellín, Colombia cut large pieces out of naturally uneven material and are left with smaller pieces, unusable for them, which are punched into the shape you see below.
Recycled Plastic Bag Bracelets Great for the beach, great for parties...and great for keeping trash out of landfills! In Colombia, water is often sold in plastic bags. (They're mutant cousins of the fruit-flavored push-up ice pops that come in plastic bags in North America.) They're cheaper than plastic bottles, and slightly less horrible for the environment since there's hardly any recycling in the country. But still, we're talking about an ungodly amount of plastic headed for landfills or, even worse, local rivers.
	Earrings with Recycled Glass Macramé is the art of tying knots without any hooks or needles. Although not commonly used, macramé is a great technique for making earrings. The end result always has great movement thanks to the weaving's flexibility. These earrings are made with glass scraps from the factory floor. They're all irregularly shaped, and were punched with holes to be re-sold as beads so that they wouldn't have to be thrown in the trash. Who knew recycling could be this fun -- or beautiful?
Recycled Wooden Pendants This is "aglomerated" wood from a shop in Medellín. We traded a few carved pieces for a couple dozen triangles. It's made out of tiny pieces of wood scraps. All pieces are hand-polished.
	Recycled CD Bracelets Junk mail is everywhere. It's useless, it's annoying, it's wasteful. But at least it can usually be recycled in North America -- though it uses lots of energy, the paper at least isn't totally lost. Junk mail CD's, however, are just thrown in the trash. In order to keep them out of landfills and incinerators, take advantage of their often colorful designs, and send a message to AOL and all the other companies that waste our planet's resources with unwanted software, we've hand-carved these bracelets.
Recycled Wood Necklaces This is "aglomerated" wood from a shop in Medellín. We traded a few carved pieces for a couple dozen triangles. It's made out of tiny pieces of wood scraps. All pieces are hand-polished.
	Recycled Wood Animal Keychains These adorable 3D animals are made with recycled wooden beads from Colombia.
Beaded Macrame Earrings These intricate earrings combine macrame, glass seed beads and recycled wooden beads. All of these earrings measure approximately 4" without the earwire, 5 1/4" with the earwire.
	Recycled Wood Change Holders These practical, durable loom-woven change holders are made with "aglomerated," or recycled, square and oval wooden beads.
Recycled Wood Earrings These earrings are made with "aglomerated," or recycled, wood beads from Colombia. Small beads are peyote stitched into barrels and adorned with larger wooden beads.
	Macramé Wheel Bracelets These imaginative macrame bracelets, decorated with recycled wooden beads in two different sizes, are sure to please.

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