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The Tagua Wholesale Catalogue
In the tropical rainforests stretching from Panama through Colombia, Ecuador until Peru grows within the forest in the shadow of the canopy a palm called Tagua.
One finds this palm, that grows up to 8 meters in length, usually in the swampy parts of the forest and often in groups.
The botanical name of the palm is Phytelephas aequatorialis or Phytelephas macrocarpa and several subspecies are distinguished.
The palm produces yearly up to fifteen spikes with its fruits.
The spike has a hard shell with protrusions and has in its interior about thirty nuts.
It is this nut that has made the Tagua palm valued and famous.
The fruits or nuts are 5 to 6 cm in size with the largest ones up to 10 cm., have a brown skin and its pulp is white cellulose and edible.
The wonder comes when the nuts is being left to dry: after a few weeks in the sun the interior turns to ivory: palm ivory. From this palm ivory skillful artisans make beautiful handicrafts and that's what we show you in our tagua catalogue.
Tagua comes under different names like palm ivory, vegetable ivory, corozo/corozzo, coquilla (brazil), palmivoor, steennoot (Dutch), steinnuss (German) and binroji (Japanese).
In olden times tagua was much more known and used than today.
After ivory had become scarce and before the invention of plastics, tagua was for over two hundred years an important raw material for luxury articles, and being processed in three continents around the globe,
for netsukes (Japanese miniatures), dices, domino and chessmen. Furthermore knobs of canes, umbrellas, needle boxes, religious figures and toys
and most of all for buttons.
With the ascend of the plastics the tagua was disposed of.
However the last decades tagua is valued again as a natural material, because of its beauty and because the use of the tagua protects the rain forests.
The good thing about tagua is that its harvest leaves the rain forest untouched. Even more: the use of tagua gives an economic use to the rain forest and so helps to protect the rain forests.
In Ecuador a flourishing craft of decorative tagua pieces has surged, with figurines of birds, fishes and animals, chess and other games and jewels.
The workshops are found both in the coastal region and the highlands.
Nayá Nayón is a trading company that we established in the year 2000 with the aim of exporting Ecuadorian handicrafts. We offer an enormous range of tagua products with over 1,000 articles in our online catalogue, what must be the largest catalogue in the world. Continuously we are improving our catalogue, looking for new designs and designing ourselves.
product codes
Each product has its unique code.
The code system
The first two digits denote the product class (05 is tagua)
The three following digits denote the series
- series 001 contains raw tagua nuts
- series 002 till 006 are semi-processed products like tagua slices and tagua powder
- series 007 are the tagua blanks for buttons
- series 011 are the tagua pearls and beads for jewelry
- series 012 till 029 are pieces for jewelry
- series 051 and 052 are pendants from nuts and slices
- series 054 till 058 are letter and figurine pendants
- series 101 till 199 are the tagua figurines:
· 101 till 109: figures
· 111 till 119: figures with base
· 121 till 129: double figures
· 131: triple figures
. 141 till 191: bridges, flowers with hummingbirds, palms, ships and penholders - the series 201- 299 are articles with various use for office, home and table
- series within 300 are the games
- the 400 series are the tagua buttons (not included in this catalogue)
- and the jewels are the 600 series
The code's last three digits designate the product within the series
The figurines are classified as follows:
- 001 till 099 sea animals
- 101 till 199 wildlife from the Galapagos and Ecuador's coastal region
- 201 till 299 wildlife from the Amazon region
- 301 till 499 wildlife from the Andes and the Temperate region
- 501 till 599 Africa's tropical wildlife
- 601 till 699 insects
- 701 till 799 fruits and plants
- 801 till 899 symbolic figurines
Prices
All prices mentioned are EXW Quito (Incoterms 2001).
Availability
With the large number of articles it is impossible to have them all in stock.
Therefore we usually have the articles made when you order them.
This means that the articles are made specially for you and also that anything in the catalogue is available.
According to the size of the order you receive discounts.
5% discount on orders of 500 $
10% discount on orders of 1,000 $
15% discount on orders of 2,500 $
20% discount on orders of 5,000 $
The discounts for the raw tagua series are different. Ask for more information.
Conditions, information on ordering, transport and more you can find in the documents ‘nayanayon ordering’ ( www.nayanayon.com/wgh/as/en/info/ordering.htm ) and ‘nayanayon conditions’ ( www.nayanayon.com/wgh/as/en/info/conditions.htm ) .
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