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African Egg Curios
Handpainted Decoupage
and Carved Egg Lamps
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Eggs
are available in the famous Big Five,
(Lion, Buffalo, Leopard, Elephant & Rhino)
and also in interesting and colourful
South African wild bird and wild flower egg designs.
Creating a unique intimate atmosphere is easy
with the Warm African Glow of a Natural
Carved Ostrich Egg Lamp!
Decoupage Egg Stands and Ostrich Egg
Lamp Stands are created in bronze,
pewter, ceramic, and warthog tusk.
Our silk-like
decoupage (painted) eggs are
magnificent, colorful and affordable.
They will make the
Perfect Addition to
your home! How our decoupage
Ostrich Eggs are created:
The eggs arrive cleaned and ready for use.
Most of the original drawings used are carefully
and skilfully created by local artists.
The original drawings are then kept on file on
computer and duplicated as a template so they
can be used again and again.
The templates are then glued onto the egg,
which has often been
pre-treated with gold leaf
- dependant on the original design.
After each egg is individually pre-designed it is
handed over to a specialist team of 50 African
ladies from the local Zulu community, many of
whom have been producing top quality
curios
since as early as 1990.
In fact, during the process of creation, each egg
can be handled by up to 10
different
professionals as there are many different
processes that can be
applied.
After preparation they are carefully coated with
50 coats of
a specially prepared acrylic varnish.
This is done by hand in order to
conceal the
cut-out original designs still visible.
At this point the eggs are handed over to the
next specialist team who
then carefully sand
each individually with three different grits
(thicknesses) of water-paper.
The eggs are then left to cure (harden) and are
then placed in a spray booth where they are
sprayed with the best hardeners available
– in fact the same clear coat which goes
onto our motor vehicles!
No machinery other than the machinery for
spray-painting (which is also done by hand)
is used.
Decoupage eggs and
carved lamps are
designed and created
entirely by hand |
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Eggs and Lamps Make
Fantastic Gifts
TOO!! |
