Mini Heart With Wings Ornament, Pink

Description

Heart with wings ornament
2.5″W x 1″H
Glass bead exterior; plastic filling
Spot clean
Handmade and fairly traded
Made by a womens co-operative in a small village on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala
Women work in groups of five or so to produce the designs
Glass beads picked up on needles in a quick and precise process
Beaders must learn to weave or sculpt each new design separately
Hundreds of steps memorized for each figure to achieve uniformity