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| 100% alpaca wool long necklace, 'Pompoms' | 
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| Brand: NOVICA
Category: Jewelry
Buy New: $42.95 (On sale from $61.95)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
ASIN: B000HZPPIK
Availability: Usually ships in 6-10 business days
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| Features:
| • | Handmade by Casa Betania Association | | • | Ships from Peru within 10 days |
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Product Description
NOVICA, in association with National Geographic, offers thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind gifts, jewelry, and home decor treasures handmade by master artists and artisans throughout the world. Rosa Pacheco adapts an Ayacucho tradition to create a very original necklace. In the Peruvian highlands, such pompoms are worn in little girls' hair and used to adorn the harnesses of llamas. Artisan Info: "When I was working for a certain NGO in Peru, I met a nun from the Sisters of Joseph. We used to work in the dining rooms, providing food for people in conditions of extreme poverty. We met a lot of women there who were under psychological stress because of the lack of money to provide for their children. "The Sister and I decided to form a support group with an aim to help them, and we established a link between aggression and low self-esteem with their economic constraints and unemployment. We discussed with them the different alternatives possible, and some said they could sell things on the streets while others said they could embroider. With that in mind, on December 4, 1990, we started making jute wallets. "I taught them how to sew and embroider, other women brought their own sewing kits. They decided the schedule as well as their salaries. The aim was to help women stop being labeled as 'social cases.' "We began with a group of seven women in what turned out to be a workshop on embroidery techniques. We encountered some difficulties, pressure was increasing and some
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