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Wooden Memory & Keepsake Boxes

Who makes the boxes?

Wooden memory keepsake puzzle boxes are handcrafted in Uruguay. These boxes are finely crafted by only one highly skilled master craftsman in Montevideo capital of Uruguay. The techniques used in Uruguay to make this boxes have only be used by one craftsman. He will pass to his son his secrets.

What about creating a box?

Before creating a new box, he first designs how the box mechanisms will work. He then select the wood to be used and let it dry for a time. After the wood has dried, he cut pieces and assemble the box. The finishing is made by hand to give them the final special rounded and shining touch. It takes about a month to finish them with the glamour they express.Since they are individually crafted, no two boxes are the same.

What are the Uruguayan boxes meant to be?

The are meant to be an enigma. Without experience they seem very difficult to open. Some boxes-parts move smoother than others. We try our best to give our impression on the smootness of movement for each box we sell. If the pieces are a little harder to move don’t force them, with a litlle bit of pacience you will be able to open them. But generally the seams are visible and the pieces move with ease. The interiors are nicely lined and have removeble trays.

If you are looking for apparently secret puzzle boxes of the finest quality and that offer a challenge. “Where to start?” “And how to get them together?”. You found the ideal place to purchase them.

What variety of woods do we offer?

South-America has an amazing variety of trees. Uruguayan puzzle boxes take advantage of these natural woods, colors and textures to produce there elaborate geometric patterns. Each box is finely handcrafted from native woods and finished as shown. Beautifull materials such as “grabillea, acacia negra, cerejeira, ligustro, itaúba, nogal, roble, agorrobo, olivo, olmo” used are crafted into these fun and eyecatching wooden boxes.

We also use recycled antique woods such as antique doors, train supporting-beams, ceiling-beams of antique houses or from construction. Also stationair wood from saw-mills very dry. These woods are difficult to find but sometimes there are opportunities.

How to qualify the difficulty?

The number of steps, necessary to open the box are an important factor. Usually, more steps denote a higher difficulty to open.

Level 1 : Easy

Level 2 : Moderately easy

Level 3 : Moderate

Level 4 : Medium

Level 5 : Difficult

Level 6 : Very difficult

What about collectors of special boxes?

Uruguayan puzzle boxes are as collectible today as they have ever been. There are more designs being produced today then ever. So the collector who is looking for variety, has endless possibilities available. Luckely the artform has gained many new enthusiastic collectors from around the world and our Uruguayan craftsman is now emerging and creating fantastic new designs and opening methods. This section includes boxes that have a craftsman’s signature stamp and delivered with certificate of uniqueness.

What does it mean to purchase a wooden memory keepsake puzzle box?

Any of these boxes are sure to become family heirlooms. Buy one today to keep your precious memories and keepsakes in a special and beautiful box. They are a great place to hide your small treasures. These boxes make great gifts for someone who is hard to buy for. We have found that everyone loves these boxes…children, teens, adults, men and women. You can challenge your friends. These boxes are for fun. Just have fun frustrating friends and family as they try to see if thy can open them? It is also a very valuable empresario gift. We can make inscriptions for special ocasions such as bar and bat-mitzva’s, when a child is born, anniversaries, bithdays…you name it we make it thrue.

How to care for?

Avoid areas of high humidity and high temperature.

To clean, wipe the surface with a clean dry cloth.DO NOT use abrasive cleansers;

The first fex times you open a box and the pieces are a little harder to move, you may want to use lightweight rubber gloves or rubber fingertips. This will prevent your nails for damaging or denting the wood.

Do not drop or allow impact to the box.

Never force pieces to move

WOODEN MEMORY KEEPSAKE PUZZLE BOXES ARE SOMETHING SPECIAL!!!

Mojari, by Wise

For those people knowledgeable of the Rajasthani Mojari turning chic and likely areas it has now turn out to be even smarter. Mojari’s ethnic atmosphere dovetailed with up to date designs and technologies has catapulted it into turning out to be a vogue statement all across the globe.

A shoe with magnificent vitality, it goes with nearly all the attire ranging from trousers, skirts and other westerns to Indian salwar-kurtas and saris.

Customarily the regionally tanned leather-based referred to as VT Leather is made use of to make Mojari. Tanned with the bark of a community vegetation Babool this leather-based is 100% chemical no cost. Its great thermal insulation qualities aid the rural populace courageous the region’s scorching summers and biting winters.

The fashionable working day Mojari nonetheless comes in versions of Leather and other elements in league with the requires from the vogue globe.

Mojari, the exceptional shoe

Mojari is exceptional in its development and production methodology. The mojari is fully designed to start with with the higher and sole sewn with each other and the past is inserted in the close, not like the common western footwear in which the higher is to start with lasted on a past, the sole roughened and the sole either stuck with adhesive or moulded,

Even the lasts are slice up into a few items to enable the entire past to be inserted into the fully shut and sewn mojari.

In the non-normal common methodology, the sizing is calculated in fingers. The sole and the higher are slice with empirical specifications. Cutting is completed with an very handy software referred to as Rampi. The higher is not shut at this stage and the center joint at the back again is stored open up. The Rampi cuts the leathers on a mattress of wood piece.

As a person-piece leather-based proves costly for the small price-small technologies rural economy, the artisans be part of quite a few tiny items of leather-based and then slice the elements from the resultant joined piece of leather-based.

Generally the girls do the embroidery and other aesthetic perform.

Invariably the metallic applications aided by the leather-based wetting and humidity imparts black marks of oxidation on the purely natural colored VT leather-based, offering a quite untidy appear to the shoe.

The stitching of higher with the sole is now commenced, primarily from the toe-close and the stitching is completed from equally the sides until the back again joint is reached. Here any anomaly in the pattern or creating is taken treatment of by trimming off the lengthy close and/or stretching in stitching to make up any shortfall in size.

Inserting leather-based piping in in between the two edges then strengthens the back again joint and the joint is shut by hand stitching. Having said that this bulky joint turns into the key perpetrator in offering a blister at the back again of the feet. This disadvantage is more compounded by the simple fact that common ethnic footwear does not have a right and left difference and it normally takes a though in advance of the shoe adapts to the shape of the feet.

At last the a few-piece past is inserted to make the pair taught and believe the shape of the past.

There is no concept of ending or polishing mojaris designed for the small price markets.