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Believe that Jesus is the reason for the season this Christmas when you decorate your home with this beautiful Haitian metal art! Hang this lovely depiction of the Birth Story on your front door or add to a wall display while you enjoy this hand-crafted artwork, reborn itself from recycled steel in Haiti.
The Story:
The Steel Drum Art of Haiti has been famous for decades throughout the world. Metal from recycled steel drums is cut, flattened, and put into a fire to be made malleable. Then the artisan traces the pattern onto the flat piece, and with chisel and hammer in hand, starts the tapping that cuts away all that is not the image. This process takes hours to perfect just the drawing skills necessary to create the pattern before tracing it, and even longer to learn the cutting and metalworking skills. Artisans prefer working barefoot as they use their feet to turn the metal while working so their hands are free to hammer and chisel.
9.5"x11.5"
Believe Nativity Metal Art
Handmade in Haiti by Croix des Bouquets artisans
When you visit Croix des Bouquets, the area of town known for Haitian metal art in the capital of Port-Au-Prince, you are met with a cacophony of tink, tink, tink as ball peen hammers strike sheets of steel. The sheets are cut from steel drums colored by oil and other liquids the drums at one time held. The process of turning sheets of metal into beautiful wall art is all done by hand, from cutting holes that become edges of trees and leaves, to accenting each lizard with a texture of scales, to painting or lacquering the final design. The artists are proud of their work, signing the pieces on the back side, leaving a raised, reversed signature on the front.
