Mango Wood Gifts...
We have gracefully curved mango
wood handcraft items bringing Thai elegance to any home decor.
Our Mango Wood gifts are hand
crafted piece by piece. Use our mango wood collectibles for dried
flowers or just by itself as a decorative piece. We offer the option of
having glass containers in mango vases so they can hold water.
Hand carved from a solid piece of Mango wood in Thailand, these
attractive wood vases and other handicraft items will go perfectly with
your oriental home decor.
After carving the wood by hand, the piece is fired in a kiln to achieve
an attractive finish for these unique gifts and collectibles from
Thailand.
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Thailand Handicrafts: Mango Wood
All over our website we have included
informational bits and pieces about Thailand, its people, language and
art and about materials that we use. Please read as adequate or simply start browsing our mango wood gifts.
The mango (Mangifera spp.; plural mangos
or mangoes) is a genus of about 35 species of tropical fruiting trees
in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae, native to India and
Indo-China, of which the Indian Mango M. indica is by far the most
important commercially.
Reference to mangos as the "food of the gods" can be found in the Hindu
Vedas, written in about 4000 B.C. The name of the fruit comes from the
Tamil word man-kay, which was corrupted to manga by the Portuguese when
they explored western India. The mango also features as a common motif,
known as the paisley, in Indian textiles.
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