Did you know that 99.9% of our merchandise in the gallery is made in the USA, Canada and locally? We carry a few lines made in Italy, France, and Spain.
We have a some items made in Guatemala, India and South Africa which are under the Fair Trade Federation ensuring fair wages and good working conditions. Some of our lines pay it forward to health, food and global organizations here and around the world.
We also carry many items that are eco friendly, organic and promote social good that are NOT sold on Amazon.
AND many women owned companies!
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Here are just a few... but when you click on the artists category if there is a story to tell we will tell it there.
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Blue Q is a company where items are made in the USA, India and China, They are located in Massachusetts and hire a number of people with disabilities. They are two brothers who treat their employees very well and give back 1% off all sales to Doctors Without Borders and hunger relief programs throughout the world. Since 2014 to date they have donated over $1,000,000 to Doctors Without Borders!!
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Conscious Step Socks- not only does every purchase empower the causes you care about in support of a better world, we’ve done better at every step in our production process, so you can feel great about your new favorite socks.
https://consciousstep.com/pages/impact
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Basic Spirit is made in Canada
10% OF PROFITS FUND CHARITABLE PROJECTS - PLEASE REFER TO "OUR GIVING"
https://basicspirit.com/our-giving
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Thumbprint Hand painted candles
https://www.thumbprintartifacts.com/pages/about-fair-trade-and-our-partners
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Renaissance Glass
Dichroic glass earrings and pendants wrapped with silver filled wire. All earring wire and rings are sterling silver.
One-of-a-kind. We individually cut and wrap each piece.
Made in the USA (NC)
The glass we use in our jewelry is called dichroic glass. The glass was first developed for scientific applications such as lasers and space mirrors. Vaporized metal oxides are deposited on the glass in microscopically thin layers. The brilliant colors are produced from light being reflected just like what occurs in a rainbow or a dragonfly wing.
We've worked with glass since 1976, but we started experimenting with dichroic glass a little over a decade ago and we've been at it ever since. There's an amazing amount of steps in creating every single piece of jewelry. Each piece is handled many times and there is no machine that can make our glass. We fire the glass to over 1400 degrees several times in order to achieve the right effect. Each firing can take up to 12 hours from start to finish. When the sheet of glass is cool enough, we cut the shapes with diamond tools, polish the glass, match the earrings by the patterns we see, and complete the design. It's a lot of steps and we do it by hand, but the results are worth it. It's like capturing lightning in a bottle and every time we open the kiln it's a new surprise.
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