{"id":636,"date":"2008-07-28T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145696.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=636"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:52:07","slug":"tagua-ivory-nut-facts-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feelgoodstyle.com\/articles\/tagua-ivory-nut-facts-options\/","title":{"rendered":"Tagua Ivory Nut Facts & Options"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Whether a farmer, designer, or shopper, tagua nuts are gems from nature to treasure. Especially crafts people would\u00a0love to enhance their creativity with tagua. My previous blog focused on buttons, but other fab results are jewelry, carvings and utilitarian objets d’art.<\/p>\n

Additional popular items are wine corks, key chains, dice, dominoes, and chess pieces. Look further to find cane and umbrella handles, pipes, tiles, and sewing needle cases. Most pieces are results from the fine art of scrimshaw.<\/p>\n

The green and reasonably soft nut from the hard casing has the consistency of Jell-O. Once the nut is ripened, it becomes very hard, so this is the time to shape tagua into different molds.
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\nThe drying process is the trickiest part of utilizing tagua nuts. The hollow, soft center is formed as the nut hardens. Each nut has a small stem that is softer and more porous than the rest of the nut.<\/p>\n

It takes about 4 days to kiln-dry the nuts. Ecuadorian artisans find it is easier to work the nut if it is only dried about 70%, which is still pretty hard. After completing the figurine or shape, they dry it more. This extra drying helps to insure that it will not crack later.<\/p>\n

To achieve this extra step of drying, they put the pieces under paper or a towel and shine heat lamps onto the covering. This is similar to incubating a chicken egg — not too hot, just nice and warm.<\/p>\n

You can buy them dried 70% to carve. About 8% will have cracks or flaws in them, but those can be utilized for different purposes. There are basically five stages of shaping, detailing, sanding, polishing and drying. Most all those stages are accomplished with a bench grinder.<\/p>\n

One World Projects<\/em><\/strong> distributes finished tagua<\/a> jewelry to both wholesale and individual buyers. Take a look at their products and be sure to read about<\/a> this admirable fair trade business founded by Phil Smith in 1992.
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\nYour queries and comments are welcome. See invite options below. There’s more to know about color turns from white to yellow and chocolate brown. Some boil, some inlay; — bring it on!<\/p>\n

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