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- Unique Gifts -
Global Gifts has a wide variety of unique gifts. Below are just a few images of some of our unique gifts. To see more, or to purchase anything you see on this site, please visit one of our three Global Gifts stores.
Serve condiments or crudités in style. Three triangular condiment dishes fit perfectly in honey-colored smoked bamboo basket. With decorative fitted woven bamboo lid. Dishes are brown ceramic with cream interior.
Made in Vietnam - $38
These thoughtful readers are the perfect statuary to hold your books in place. Artisans create these West African readers and their books through the lost wax casting method. Beautifully finished in dark brown.
Lost wax is one of the first known methods of working with molten metal. Originating in the Middle East in the 9th century, it came to West Africa on trade routes. The artisan sculpts wax, then coats it with clay and allows it to dry. Molten bronze is poured into the mold, melting the wax and allowing liquid bronze to fill the shape. After the metal cools, the artisan breaks the clay, revealing a one-of-a-kind figure. Because each sculpture is created individually, some variation will exist.
Made in Burkina Faso - $145
Miniature painted ceramic peacock is handcrafted by Peruvian artisans of Manos Amigas. Peacocks represent renewal, compassion and good luck. They are seen as auspicious and protective.
Made in Peru - $6
Share Fair Trade With A Child
Global Gifts and the Fair Trade Resource Network are pleased to introduce Think Fair Trade First!, a fun and colorful introduction of Fair Trade to children. Buy Think Fair Trade First! in our stores or on line at the Fair Trade Resource Network.
A beautiful symbol of peace from war-torn Cambodia. Like the ancient biblical promise of “swords into plowshares,” this candleholder spreads peaceful light from the remains of a brass bomb shell. Handcrafted by artisans of Cambodia’s Rajana Association.
War in Cambodia littered the landscape with bomb casings and unexploded bombs. Artisans with Rajana, a local nonprofit, create with casings collected by Halo Trust, a demining agency making the land safe once again for communities throughout Cambodia. Rajana, which helps young people gain skills in handicrafts production and marketing, transforms bomb casings into fashion statements for peace. “When we make jewelry [like this] then we know our country has peace,” said one young silversmith.
Made in Cambodia - $28
