Green Options » Steinnuss http://greenoptions.com/tag/steinnuss Posts tagged 'Steinnuss' Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:52:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Tagua Ivory Nut Facts & Options http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/07/28/tagua-ivory-nut-facts-options/ http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/07/28/tagua-ivory-nut-facts-options/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:52:07 +0000 Delia Montgomery http://feelgoodstyle.com/2008/07/28/tagua-ivory-nut-facts-options/ Whether a farmer, designer, or shopper, tagua nuts are gems from nature to treasure. Especially crafts people would love to enhance their creativity with tagua. My previous blog focused on buttons, but other fab results are jewelry, carvings and utilitarian objets d’art.

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.

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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