Woods

As wood has been the backbone of our organic jewelry from our early beginnings we have accumulated a lot of different woods to use in our wholesale jewelry collection. Most of the wood we use is from local sourcing from different plantations, some for timber but also fruit and oil plantations once the trees become too old to produce they sell them to us. We even have some imported woods to make sure that our assortment of woods used in organic jewelry and body piercing is the most extensive anywhere to be found. As we firmly believe and strive for sustainability we take great care to assure that none of the trees we use are harvested by illegal or non sustainable means.

Below is a list with descriptions for the different types of woods we use and you can see a photo of one of our tree plantations at the end of this page.

Our thoughts: Acacia wood has a yellow/brownish color with lots of fine black grain that makes for a very interesting look as the contrast between the wood and the grain is so obvious. Acacia trees are most known for their beautiful flowers and the honey that is being made from these, who knows one day it might be more known for its beautiful wood grain and nice jewelry made from this unique wood.

Our thoughts: Arang kayo translates to Charcoal wood in Indonesian so that is why we call the wood charcoal wood. Another named we have used in the past for this is Iron wood but this is completely wrong as Iron wood is another species and is not suitable for jewelry. Charcoal wood is a naturally black wood at times and at times it has a very nice variation of black and red brown color depending on where its grown. Arang kayo is extremely hard so we have in the past called it Iron wood but as this is not real Iron wood we find it inappropriate to use this name.

Our thoughts: Bamboo is a hard wood to carve and shape hence you won't find many organic jewelry items on our site using bamboo. We do wish we could make more organic piercing and organic jewelry products from Bamboo as Bamboo is very fast growing wood and is the most environmentally friendly woods around.

Our thoughts: Chestnut wood has a light beige color with a subtle lines running through the wood a little bit like waves. We do import our Chestnut from Europe from older chestnut trees that are no longer suitable for nut harvesting. For some people roasted chestnuts is a delicacy to be enjoyed on a cold winters day, but our chestnut wood jewelry can be enjoyed by everyone at any given day.

Our thoughts: Coco-wood has an orange color that is beautifully textured with black spots and grains traveling though out the wood. Even though this wood is easy to obtain its one of the harder woods to work with as it has to be treated and dried in exactly the right way as if done wrong it will either get too dry and crack or get too wet and get moldy. Its a process that we have perfected over the years with many trials and errors.

Our thoughts: Coco-nut is one of our top favorites for the creation of organic jewelry because of its strength and amazing finishing plus its also a by product from the coco-nut industry making it a one of the most environmentally friendly material. Sadly its a hard material to make body piercing from but we have tried out best to make a small laminated collection just because we like the material so much.

Our thoughts: This beautiful very light colored wood is easy to carve into amazing organic jewelry. The wood is of medium hardness and has an amazingly smooth finish when finished properly. Crocodile wood has often been called the Ivory of Woods because of its similar color and smooth finish. The name Crocodile wood derives from the tooth-shaped, knobby protrusions on the trunk of the tree that looks like the skin of a crocodile. Crocodile wood grows natively in subtropical areas around the world. We use only cultivated Crocodile wood for our organic jewelry collection.

Our thoughts: Jackfruit wood is a very hard and durable wood as its grain is interlocked and resists cracking. The color is orange/yellow that darkens with age. We specially prefer mixing this wood with Narra or charcoal wood for many of our laminated engraved plugs. The fruit its self is considered a delicacy by many but considered a stink bomb by others.

Our thoughts: We have 2 different versions of Narra wood, one is the very exquisite dark brown Narra wood that is the most commonly used wood in our organic jewelry due to its amazing dark brown color with hints of red and black. It's no mystery why this is the most popular from all of our wood. The second type we use is what we called black Narra wood where we treat the wood with black dye to get a delightful matt black finish. The color stain we use to dye the wood with is organic and off course lead and toxic free. Narra wood is a hard wood that makes it very durable and is widely used throughout Asia in furniture and handicrafts. We have found yet another use for this amazing wood. We get our Narra wood from sustainable plantations around Indonesia and North of Thailand.
Note: Even though Narra is a Padauk wood it is still commonly confused as part of the rose wood family. The reason for this confusion is that Narra wood (Pterocarpus) has been wrongly named by many as "New Guinea Rosewood" or "Brown Rose Wood".

Our thoughts: This is one of our most popular and suitable wood for piercing jewelry. This wood has a very fine smooth texture and light creamy beige color with black grains weaving through. It also has a very distinctive pleasant smell and you can tell its Olive wood just from this odor. Another great thing about this wood is that its very oily so no additional lubricating is needed to keep this from drying out. We reckon this is just about as good as it gets as a material to use for organic body piercing jewelry.

Our thoughts: Palm wood is a very beautifully textured grayish wood with black spots and grains traveling though out the wood which really pops out once carved and polished to perfection into organic body piercing and jewelry. This is a very abundant wood that grows all over south East Asia and it grows at an astonishing speed. Palms are one of the longest cultivated wood in human history and we are proud to have come up with another use for it among its many other uses.

Our thoughts: Sappan wood is dark red in color with a dark grain making beautiful lines through the wood which makes for a very interesting and unique look. This plant has many uses among them it possesses medicinal abilities as an antibacterial and for its anticoagulant properties, these characteristics makes this wood very ideal to use for large gauge piercings.

Our thoughts: The color of Sawo is very soft red that almost borders on pink at times. It has an amazingly fine grain that makes this into one of the easiest woods to carve with stunning results that can be seen from the intricate organic jewellery designs that we make from this wood. Sawo is native to south America but has been cultivated in southeast Asia for many years and is now a very common wood and the fruit Sapodilla is commonly eaten throughout south east asian .

Our thoughts: This is a light brown wood with a dark fine grain that gives it a very smooth look. Siamea wood has medicinal value and it contains a compound named barakol which is used in traditional herbal medicine. Both the leaves and the buds from this tree are used in cooking in Thailand though we personally value the wood more for its smooth texture and the amazing jewelry we can make from it.

Our thoughts: We have two kinds of tamarind wood one dark and one light. The dark has a very dark brown color with a very fine grain and its one of the hardest woods that we use which makes it very ideal to use for the largest plugs that we engrave. The finishing gets very glossy and the grains shimmers when moving the finished items in sunlight. Tamarind wood is native wood from Africa but is being cultivated in many places in southeast Asia. The Tamarind fruit is used in both Thai and Indonesian cooking and is also used for many cosmetic products.

Our thoughts: We have two kinds of tamarind wood one dark and one light. The light colored Tamarind wood is a very cool looking wood, the wood its self is a very light in color, almost white, with lots of dark almost black lines randomly criss-crossing through the wood. All Tamarind wood used for our organic piercings are supplied from Tamarind plantations. The Tamarin fruit is used for Thai and Indonesian curries and is also used for many cosmetic products.

Our thoughts: Teak wood is one of the most well known woods from Southeast Asia as its so commonly used for building houses and making furniture. Teak is a hardwood that is light brown in color with hints of dark lines running through it. Our teak comes from the northern part of Thailand as well as Sumatra in Indonesia where teak plantations are very common.
Note: We never use golden Teak as almost all golden Teak comes from protected Teak wood forrest around Southeast Asia.

Our thoughts: Walnut wood has a light grey/brown color with very fine grain. As we have to import our walnut wood from Europe we only use this for a very few limited collection models such as plain wood plugs and ear spirals. The trees we use are from Walnut plantations from trees that are too old to produce any nuts.

Our thoughts: Even though we call this Antique wood it is actually not even a real wood. A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. The name "Antique Wood" is just something we have come up for this type of Liana as the wood is quite soft with big variations in the grain that makes it look like very old and a bit rough wood.

Our thoughts: Even though we call this Honey wood it is actually not even a real wood. A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. We named this "Honey" wood as the color and grain looks a it similar to very dark nice Manuka honey. This is the most sought after of our Liana woods and only available in smaller sizes unfortunately.

Our thoughts: Even though we call this Zebra wood it is actually not even a real wood. A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest. The "Zebra" wood we have named due to the similarity it has to a zebra pattern and color but this is not the actual name, just what we call it to have a name for it.