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Share vitality of ever-creative life. Sturdy tree reaches out with its handcrafted branches. To create pieces such as this wall hanging, Haitian cut metal artisans cut open 55-gallon drums, hammer them flat, and then mark designs on black metal with chalk. Using a hammer and chisel, they pound and cut through metal to make designs. Among Haiti’s most original art forms, this type of ironwork began in Croix des Bouquets, a small village outside Port-au-Prince. In early 1930s Georges Liautaud formed imaginative cemetery crosses from recycled metal cut from oil drums. An artistic tradition has grown from those humble beginnings and now village has become a center for this art, with more than 60 workshops.
  • Cut metal
  • 11SQ inches
  • Made in Haiti

UPC Code: 732919449655

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The nonprofit CAH, Comité Artisanal Haitien or Haitian Committee of Artisans, markets and exports crafts made by Haitian artisans, cooperatives and craft groups.

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