COMPANY
Happy Elephant Jewelry is a new, small-family business. Our goal is to introduce our sustainable product to the American market at a good price, with good quality and with gorgeous unique jewelry designs.
PRODUCTS
Our jewelry is characterized for being colorful, fun and fashionable for every season. For us the use of sustainable products to create the jewelry is what makes Happy Elephant unique.
We offer our clients a diverse and interesting collection with modern and original designs. All our rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings are handmade and therefore one of a kind.
The main product that our jewelry is made from is a fruit of an ivory-nut palm which its scientific name means "Elephant Plant.” It is harvested in the tropical rainforest of South America and is also known as vegetable ivory and been used as ivory substitute for over 140 years. The discovery of this nut has helped stop the killing of female elephants as the vegetable ivory found in this nut is equivalent to the ivory horns of these beautiful animals.
We also have a variety of jewelry made of diverse seeds that are harvested in the rainforest, wood, and mother of pearl. Some gorgeous designs for every style.
TAGUA
Tagua is a fruit of the ivory-nut palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa) its scientific name means "elephant plant." This ivory nut palm tree flourishes in the rainforest of South America. Known also as vegetable ivory, the Tagua is used as a substitute for ivory. A sustainable product such as Tagua has been used as an ivory substitute for over 140 years and for example you could find it in military uniforms during WWI. A Tagua palm tree's harvest is EQUAL to ivory from one female elephant.
After harvesting, the nuts are dried in the sun for several months. Some of the dried nuts are then sliced, drilled and polished by tumbling in water and then in their own media (grinding dust).
Please note that no two slices are exactly the same and imperfections do occur.
HUAYRURO
Huayruro is beautiful red seed with one black spot that covers one third of its surface. This seed has been used for years by natives in Southamerica in their jewelry. They believed these were powerful good luck charms that keep bad spirits away.