holiday decorations

Guatemala’s Iliana Hernandez creates her own versions of Christmas icons Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to brighten your home during the holidays. She expertly crafts this charming pair of decorative accents using the Japanese amigurumi crochet technique, guaranteed to bring the festive spirit of the season into your surroundings.

Carved by hand from albesia wood and given a weathered finish, this set of four ornaments will add the beauty of the sea to your holiday decor. Komang Sulaksana in Bali designs the starfish and seahorse ornaments, which swing from agel grass cords.

Costa Rican artisan Blanca Padilla designs and handcrafts this lovely trio of angels from fiber extracted from cabuya or fique, a succulent that looks similar to agave. The cabuya fiber is a beautiful creamy antique white, and the artisan works with its natural texture to from the features of this wall sculpture. Gold thread is woven with the cabuya to accent each angel's halo and the hem of her gown, and she carries a lovely bouquet of paper and natural dried flowers in red, yellow, and green. A star shoots over the trio.

The art and skill of creating handicrafts from cabuya or fique has been handed down through Blanca Padilla's family for generations. The artisan sources her material herself, growing and harvesting the cabuya, extracting the fiber, and preparing it for use in the handicrafts. Blanca Padilla hopes to help revitalize the cabuya craft industry with the success of her designs.

Covet this eco-friendly interpretation of the classic nativity scene, typical of the days spent with family before Christmas. This sculpture integrates the pieces of the scene into a convenient single sculpture, facilitating its safe keeping and preventing the loss of important characters. Inspired by her religion and traditions, Salvadoran artisan Marcela Moran crafts this nativity sculpture from handwoven cotton and naturally occurring fibers from the calabash gourd, jute and agave, following her passion to create sustainable and biodegradable products.