Handcrafted Sawo Wood Hair Pin from Bali - Konde Arts and Crafts knife and spoon

knife and spoon

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Handcrafted Sawo Wood Hair Pin from Bali - Konde Arts and Crafts knife and spoonThis simple hair pin is hand carved of sawo wood. Made Sumerta from Bhakti Senang Hati crafts the piece by hand. 'As a child, I suffered poliomyelitis, which weakened my legs and I can't go anywhere myself,' the artisan says. 'But I am able to create something useful and beautiful with my own two hands. Balinese ladies use hairpins whenever they pray to the temple. My Mother and wife use this kind of hairpin.' He names it Konde, an Indonesian word