Bring the forest home with our adorable, hand-carved and burned forest-themed gourd ornaments!

These woodland wonders would love to have a perch on your tree. Handcrafted by artists in Peru, our gourd ornaments bring a modern flair to a 4,000-year-old traditional carving and burning technique. 

Size: ~2" - 2.5"H

Available in an assortment of designs; sold singly. Visit us in-store or let us choose for you!

Long before gourds became Christmas ornaments and keepsakes, Peruvians were carving and decorating them for both practical and symbolic purposes.

Archaeological evidence from Huaca Prieta on Peru’s northern coast shows gourds used as bowls, bottles, dippers, fishing floats, and other everyday objects as early as the third millennium BCE. Some fragments were also carved and decorated with pyroengraving, showing that gourds had already become

Fair Trade from Peru.