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The Atlántico napkin ring set features hand-coiled iraca leaf, woven using a diamond weave technique drawn strand by strand by artisan weavers in the high valleys of Nariño, Colombia. The yellow colouring is not a dye but the result of leaving the iraca leaf to sun-dry in the Andean climate, a process integral to the material itself. Each ring is hand-formed and hand-finished, with tension maintained entirely by touch across the weaving process. The set contains 4 individually crafted rings.
Hand-coiled from sun-dried iraca leaf in the high valleys of Nariño — each napkin ring taking a skilled weaver the better part of a day to complete, the diamond weave pulled strand by strand to a finish that no machine has come close to replicating.. The yellow is not a dye. It is what the iraca leaf becomes when the weavers of Nariño leave it to the Andean sun — a process that cannot be hurried any more than the weaving itself can. One weaver. One ring. The coil of this set of 4 is hand-formed, the edge is hand-finished, and the tension is maintained by touch alone across five centuries of unbroken craft tradition.
