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Crafts Local Guadeloupe (Article made by Chantal)

The Guadeloupe is a beautiful island with magnfique funds marine, terrestrial flora is also a very diverse and abundant especially in Basseterre. This flora may be the basis for artwork. Yet it must be the inspiration .........

THE GOURD
Here calabash:

The calabash is an inedible fruit that comes from a tree: the calabash tree. This fruit is inseparable from the history of the Caribbean. The gourd has long facilitated the daily lives of residents, since it allowed once hollowed out, to serve as a plate, bowl, salad bowl. Today ' Today it is the object of decoration lamps, sconces ........ Here are some creations made close to home by subway ........ I've even rubbed my ........

Here the flesh of the gourd. William began to burn his gourd before emptying. Personally I always empty my gourd before carving. It is imperative to remove all the meat inside to prevent the interior from darkening.

William sculpts with a Dremel tool necessary to successfully burn and pierce his gourd.
Here So a few creations by metro Pointe-Noire which
Ninine, a highly productive creative ......

pot decorated gourd seeds (flaming seed the church, creating a tamarind ......) Ninine.

My first gourd pot, decorated with seeds and peas church seaside Be indulgent critics

Calabash painted Ninine; I adore the colors and patterns:

Jerome brought me a gourd, slightly damaged. Using the jigsaw, Jerome has managed to remove the part that was dented. I have decided to make a cache pot. Helping me with a stencil realized through Internet, I have made a lizard on one side.

And on the other hand, the flowers forming a heart. I hesitate to paint ..... It might be brighter.

can also carry handbags or backpacks gourd .

William creation and Fabienne But also pretty baskets, each to his natural style or color: Basket made by Ninine:

Cart

directed by Fabienne:

Two photophores: a creation by Fabienne

And here is a mobile calabash:

The gourds are hung on a pod flamboyant.Une creating Ninine

Gourds can Illuster a theme like Halloween pumpkin
Beautiful carved and painted by Fabienne:
The gourd can also be the basis for the design of lamps, wall ....

Moreover, we advise you, if you go to Marie Galante, to go for a ride to the Bellevue distillery. Not for the sake of this distillery, too sterile for my taste, but for the craft shop "little Kwi", located at the entrance of the distillery. Christophe Girondin, this artisan welcomes you and explains his work. And live his Vour Pasisi must be disciplined and able to work alone for hours in his studio. We had a hard time choosing among the wall so the choice was great. We finally left with four gourds shaped sconces. Unfortunately, we have no photo of his work, because the pumpkins have already been offered a gift and we did not think to photograph them before.
By cons, if you want to find a real distillery with cane on the floor, old dusty machines in running, sometimes strong odors, go to the Domaine du Père Labat Fish at the distillery.

The tour is very picturesque and rum is excellent.

Angel has even had the great honor to sit in a cart pulled by oxen pulling.

Some models exhibited at Fabienne and Wylliam

I love the mix gourd and driftwood

Here lamps pose Ninine

I'll let you count the number of holes to drill and the time needed to achieve this masterpiece.

following patches:

Created by Fabian

And here is my work, my first application that I did change over time and my inspiration. I love the smell that emanates from the gourd to each hole.

Having carved my drawing, I painted with a paint timber in Pébéo, small bottle of 45ml.

BAMBOO
Ninine had the idea to paint bamboo, shrubs that can be discovered on the roadside of the crossing, we borrow it when we go to Pointe a Pitre.

SEEDS

There is a variety of seeds from trees, shrubs, vines or herbs. Just look down and have the curiosity to seek to collect on their behalf. Me, I helped the book "Seeds of the Antilles" edited by PLB.

This book is a veritable bible of seeds, so much so he was out of stock for months.

You can collect them in a seed, as is Fabienne. L The white wooden frame brings out the colors of the seeds. They are naturally beautiful. No need to varnish.

Near our house, we seed flamboyant, the job's tears, of monbin (personally I find them ugly), parsley bastard, of toloman, the Carapate, Monval of the seeds of dwarf royal palm (great for making fake chocolate Easter).
It is not necessary to go into full rain forest to find seeds.

Me, I've wanted to make some necklaces with some of these seeds:

This first necklace is made from seeds the church (in red) and Job's tears (gray). I had to drill them with my Dremel. But beware, they fear the water.

Here is a candle made with seeds of the church

Job's tears come from grasses and perennials, they are drilled natural ..

The seeds change color: initially it is green, then it evolves into black, gray and finally white.

My crop comes from the ravine that runs near our home. As you can see, the harvest was plentiful.

the occasion of the birthday of Angel, I burned the seeds with the Dremel. And I used the stem of the seed to make a sword. The stem is very strong when dry.

Here a first set purchased in Guadeloupe:

And another of my creations based church seeds (red), toloman (small black), and soap (4 seeds black). It is christian, my stepfather who has picked up during a visit. Thank you to him because I never solved to other place.

Besides I appeal to those of you who could give me a place I could find ........

Here's another set of mechanical seed bought from the house of wood.

About this visit, the price / quality ratio is very low. By cons, you can discover beautiful gourds. Is not Evelyn ?......

The seeds come from a shrub, covered with thorns. The seeds are in pods. There are different colors: orange, black and gray.

COCONUT BARK

For the birthday of Angel, we had a pirate theme. I made a boat with a coconut shell that I have breakthrough to the seeds hang around the boat. The sails are also coconut and are fibers are very light and fairly rigid.

coconut leaves

During our escape from one day to St. Anne, we met at the beach a young artist who Guadeloupe s called Jeremy said DJERKS.Un very cool guy and who wants to live her work.

He makes baskets of different sizes, hats, animals in coconut leaves at very attractive prices. Very fond memories of Guadeloupe. (That's another thing all the memories "Made in China" proposed in numerous shops)