Peruvian Owl Gourd Ornaments #2

Peruvian Owl Gourd Ornaments #2

Handmade mini Owl Gourd Ornaments.

Cute and friendly mini owls that will win you over with their big eyes and attentive gaze. They are birds closely related to wisdom due to their powerful night vision and their great intuition.
They are unique because they are carved by hand and in nature no pumpkin is the same as another.

Once the gourds are dry, some are painted and others are not. Then the owl’s features are carved on its surface.

• Handmade in Peru.
• Hanging and Sitter Ornaments.
• Available Colors: Red, green and natural color.
• Approximately measures: 2.76x 2.56″x 2.56″” /7 x 6.5 x 6.5 cm.  

The carved gourds are ornamented crafts made from the fruits of the pumpkin, a product that grows in the north of our country.

The elaboration of carved gourds is ancestral, millenary; and this is demonstrated by the discovery of two small recorded gourds of 3,500 years old. This technique is inherited from generation to generation by Peruvian artisans.

There are several ways to make carved gourds: carved, the pyro-engravings and the painted ones, and each family of artisans has its own way of making them.

To make the carving the main tool is the chisel that they sharpen in a special stone, to then make the incisions in filigree, expressing in the mate what they think, the customs of the peasant, the cattle ranch, the agriculture, the festivities of their towns, among other images. To achieve the dark tones by moving the matte away in an oven so that it acquires the different brown tones.