Olive Wood Tea Candle Holder | Fair Trade from Palestine

Olive Wood Tea Candle Holder | Fair Trade from Palestine

€25,00

Olive Wood Tea Candle Holder | Fair Trade from Palestine
This lovely candle holder shaped as a shooting star with blue resin holds a single tea light. Olive wood is an amazing, sustainable wood we source when we harvest our trees in Palestine every autumn. This is handcrafted by Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative and is fairly traded! Olive wood is an amazing, sustainable wood we source when we harvest our trees in Palestine every autumn. Dimensions : 19 x 11 cm | 7.5 x 4.35 in How to Maintain Olive Wood : It is recommended to wash with warm water and gentle soap when needed. Towel dry it immediately, and rub some olive oil in with your fingers or a cloth. Read more on our blog here for tips on how to care for your wooden kitchen items. *Olive Wood has many beautiful shades and grains, from dark to white and from no grain to fully grained. All purchases from Handmade Palestine support fair trade artisans sustaining their livelihoods and we donate profits from every purchase to a local not-for-profit to plant trees and protect Palestine’s environment.

THE ETHOS


In the face of systemic economic closure, the act of making is an act of resistance. Our Traditional Craft track is anchored in the preservation of the Palestinian identity through the hands of the people. This is not mass-produced "folk art"—it is the survival of the master-craftsman.

THE PILLARS


1. **The Women’s Cooperative**: Featuring the work of *Manjel Ma'qoud*, a female-led embroidery guild formed in response to the economic suffocation of 2024. Their Tatreez is a living language of village history.
2. **Hebron Fire & Earth**: Hand-blown Phoenician glass and hand-painted ceramics from the last family workshops in Hebron, utilizing techniques refined over five centuries.
3. **Bethlehem Olive Wood**: Carved from the prunings of ancient trees, ensuring the tree's health while providing livelihoods to the Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative.



THE COMMITMENT
Every piece in this collection is a direct-from-source empowerment. We donate profits from every purchase to local not-for-profits like *Mashjar Juthour* to plant native trees and protect the Palestinian environment.