de taguacatalogus
informatie
In de tropical rainforests stretching van Panama through Colombia, Ecuador until Peru grows within de forest in de shadow van de canopy a palm called Tagua.
één finds this palm, that grows up to 8 meters in length, usually in de swampy parts van de forest en often in groups.
de botanical name van de palm is Phytelephas aequatorialis or Phytelephas macrocarpa en several subspecies are distinguished.
de palm produces yearly up to fifteen spikes met its fruits.
de spike has a hard shell met protrusions en has in its interior over thirty noten.
It is this noot that has made de Tagua palm valued en famous.
de fruits or noten are 5 to 6 cm in size met de largest ééns up to 10 cm., have a brown skin en its pulp is white cellulose en edible.
de wonder comes when de noten is being left to dry: after a few weeks in de sun de interior turns to ivory: palm ivory. van this palm ivory skillful artisans make beautiful handicrafts en that's what we show you in our Taguacatalogus.
Tagua comes under different names like palm ivory, vegetable ivory, corozo/corozzo, coquilla (brazil), palmivoor, steennoot (Dutch), steinnuss (German) en binroji (Japanese).
In olden times tagua was much more known en used than today.
After ivory had become scarce en before de invention van plastics, tagua was for over twee- hundred years an important raw material for luxury articles, en being processed in three continents around de globe,
for netsukes (Japanese miniatures), dices, domino en schaakmen. Furthermore knobs van canes, umbrellas, needle boxes, religious figures en toys
and most van all for buttons.
With de ascend van de plastics de tagua was disposed of.
However de last decades tagua is valued again as a natural material, because van its beauty en because de use van de tagua protects de rain forests.
de good thing over tagua is that its harvest leaves de rain forest untouched. Even more: de use van tagua gives an economic use to de rain forest en so helps to protect de rain forests.
In Ecuador a flourishing craft van decorative tagua delen has surged, met beeldjes van birds, fishes en animals, schaak en other spellen en sieraden.
de workwinkels are found both in de coastal region en de highlands.
Nayá Nayón is a trading company that we established in de year 2000 met de aim van exporting Ecuadorian handicrafts. We offer an enormous range van tagua producten met over 600 articles in our online catalogus, what must be de largest catalogus in de world. Continuously we are improving our catalogus, looking for new designs en designing ourselves.
product codes
Each product has its unique code.
de code system
de first twee- digits denote de product class (05 is tagua)
de three following digits denote de series
de code's last three digits designate de product within de series
de beeldjes are classified as follows:
Prices
All prices mentiéénd are EXW Quito (Incoterms 2001).
Availability
With de large number van articles it is impossible to have them all in stock.
Therefore we usually have de articles made when you order them.
This means that de articles are made specially for you en also that anything in de catalogus is available.
According to de size van de order you receive discounts.
5% discount over orders van 500 $
10% discount over orders van 1,000 $
15% discount over orders van 2,500 $
20% discount over orders van 5,000 $
de discounts for de raw tagua series are different. Ask for more information.
Conditions, information over ordering, transport en more you can find in de documents ‘nayanayon ordering’ ( www.nayanayon.com/en/ordering.htm ) en ‘nayanayon conditions’ ( www.nayanayon.com/en/conditions.htm ) .
ã artes saquíl s.a. 2000-2006