Caribbean Craft

Website: ***** SHOWROOM: at the Atlanta Americasmart: building 2 West Wing, 7th Floor, Suite **7A, open during major markets. Wholesale of giftware and home decor handicrafts, mainly for the Caribbean and American tourist market, gifts and souvenirs shops, but also for home decorating stores. We specialize in hand-painted items : metal sculpture, papier-mache and woodcraft. Most of our products are made using recycled materials. Our specialty is the gaily-colored, artistically hand-painted home decor object, which can be purely decorative, like wall hangings or picture frames, or consist of objects useful in the home, like towel holders, switch plates, knick knack trays, key holders, magnets, trays, nightlights, napkin rings, bottle holders, spice racks, placemats, utensils holders etc etc. The natural artistic talents of the Haitians are well-known, and many of these hand-painted pieces are truly works of art. We also can, and do, accept subcontract work on different designs, as for instance typical Dutch themes or designs from Brittany, for the local tourist industry there. The supports are interesting from another aspect: ecological recycling. The contoured and shaped sheet metal comes from recycled drums; and the papier-mache, from empty bags of cement. (Wood does not come from Haiti, where the deforestation is an acute problem).