Price (excluding P&P)

£34.50

(from New Internationalist Shop website)

Description

Difaya Sentle

Lindoro Ceramics, founded in January 2008, is the brainchild of Jewellery designer, Dorothea Salmon, and internationally recognized Ceramic artist, Linda Wilson, both of the small mountain village of Fouriesburg in the eastern portion of the Free State Province of South Africa, where they have their studio. Both of these ladies had, for some time, the desire to develop a project that would give employment and use the untapped talent of the local South Sotho women. So to accomplish this, they came together to create Lindoro Ceramics

To this end, they have combined their expertise of ceramics and jewellery designing to train the women in pottery and also to create a collection of beautiful and unique ceramic beads.

Dorothea first marketed her jewellery designs whilst in the United States where she lived for 25 years. Traveling with her husband on a variety of environmental and wildlife projects, she criss-crossed some of the remotest parts of Africa where she became interested in collecting ancient tribal art, with a particular interest In the wonderful variety of ethnic tribal beads she discovered. These she has now used in her Designs and, from this, the idea of a new ceramic collection was born.

Linda, of Linda Wilson Ceramics, has already made a name for herself with the quality of her ceramic designs, which are marketed locally, nationally and internationally. With her work being so well admired, she has been commissioned to design exclusive pieces for the Palace Of The Lost City, and the quality of her work, her enthusiasm and the desire to help these unemployed women was recently recognized with an award and grant from the US-based “leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World” Foundation.