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The Leakey Collection’s fashionable fair trade jewelry’s made with sustainable grasses by Maasai women in Kenya.<\/p>\n
Want to design your own eco-jewelry \u2014 without doing the actual work of making the jewelry? Browse The Leakey Collection to find pretty jewelry strands that you can twist and combine to make a choker, long necklace, bracelet, or whatever else your imagination can conjure up and create.<\/p>\n
Sold at upscale boutiques and Origins stores, The Leakey Collection brings eco-fashion to fair trade jewelry. The company\u2019s Zulugrass jewelry\u2019s made of hollow grasses local to the Maasai\u2019s region in Kenya, which are cut, dyed, and strung together with Czech glass to create pretty strands in lots of different colors. <\/p>\n
You can buy pre-styled multi-strand necklaces in a bunch of different styles \u2014 or single long strands at $12.95 each \u2014 which can be twisted on their own or combined with a sterling-silver necklace or bracelet clasp for even more variety. Find Zulugrass jewelry via the store locator, or by browsing the online store.<\/p>\n
Careful, though, not to go overboard with these. Combine too many colored strands and you\u2019ll go from chic to crunchy pretty fast. And while I do like the necklaces and bracelets for the most part, the earrings look rather busy and crunchy to me due to all the uneven loops. Maybe that\u2019s just me though\u2026.<\/p>\n
The Leakey Collection was founded by Philip Leakey, former parliament member in Kenya, and his wife Katy Leakey, a California artist, with a fair trade and humanitarian mission: To allow Maasai women a way to earn a sustainable living while the men, due to drought, had left to find grazing grounds for their cattle.<\/p>\n
The company \u2014 which is a member of the Fair Trade Federation, employs more than 1400 rural Kenyan families now \u2014 and has also expanded its jewelry line to include Zulubeads made of fallen acacia wood!<\/p>\n
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