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Crossroads Trade: Judaica

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. Our collection of Judaica includes Israeli menorahs, dreidels, matzoh plates, tzedakah boxes, mezuzahs, and chamsas. Many come from the Jerusalem workshop of Yair Emanuel, who employs new immigrants and people with developmental disabilities. We also carry traditional filigree jewelry of Ben Zion David, an 8th generation silversmith, carrying on the traditional, centuries-old, distinctive work of the Yemenite Jews. By phone at 617-975-2001.

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Crossroads Trade: Art Cards

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. It’s not easy to find ways to make traditional ethnic arts accessible. A weaver, embroiderer or painter might be able to produce one or two fine pieces each year. Our cards enable traditional ethnic motifs and techniques to be produced in miniature. Many artisans can participate in their production. Many customers can afford to buy them. Our cards come from many lands. Among them are paper cuts from Peru, embroidered cloth from Bolivia, Gaza and Cambodia, painted...

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Crossroads Trade: Baskets

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. As long as people have carried things, they’ve used containers. They have fashioned them from materials at hand reeds, roots, grasses, tree fiber, vines or, in places with little vegetation, skins, quills, and gut. If it can bend, people can use it. Poverty has led artisans to contemplate trash in new ways. Rolled food and gum wrappers are coiled into shiny, sturdy, fruit bowls. Potato sacks are carefully unwoven and rewoven into baskets. Ugandan baskets utilize bana...

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Crossroads Trade: Dolls and Folk Toys

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. Dolls and Folk Toys. Here at Crossroads Trade we get to see people at play. Parents and children sit on the floor and pop open one of our matrioshkas or nesting dolls. Adoptive parents identify the clothing on a Guatemalan doll as from their child's district. Doll collectors stop by to see the latest arrivals from Colombia, Jordan, and Uzbekistan. People of all ages marvel at our simple, ingenious, swinging ball, wood toys. Most come from the Russian village of B...

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. Weaving, embroidery and piecework are powerful means of cultural expression. Through their traditional textiles, the artisans recount the stories, motifs and rhythms of their lives. A Bolivian weaver, for example, may portray her village's yearly calendar. A Palestinian refugee maintains her connection to her village by embroidering its signature motifs. Purchasing ethnic textiles is one of our biggest challenges at Crossroads Trade. Import regulations are arduou...

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Crossroads Trade: Folk Transport

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. Crossroads Trade is pleased to present whimsical folk vehicles from many lands, bearing striking resemblances to their real counterparts. From Colombia, we offer chivas. The originals are elaborately painted, wooden-side buses. Ours, brightly painted ceramic renditions of the original, are a signature folk art of Colombia. The Peruvian ceramic cars and trucks have the discernable stamp of Ayacucho and Quinua. There is some private transport in these countries, and we...

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Crossroads Trade: Christmas

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. Crossroads Trade invites you to celebrate your holidays by sharing in the work of our artisans. When the weather grows cold and nights are short, holiday lights shine. Our Christmas stockings change every year. They may come from Bolivia, Hungary, Nepal, Peru, or South Africa. Crossroads Trade wants your feedback and ideas. Your purchase will make a substantial difference in the life of an artisan. Please contact us. By phone at 617-975-2001.

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Crossroads Trade: Accessories

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. But ethnic art isn’t static; it evolves constantly. The innovative uses of recycled materials never cease to amaze. From subway maps to soda cans, artisans envision possibilities in trash, far beyond our imaginations. Crossroads Trade wants your feedback and ideas. Your purchase will make a substantial difference in the life of an artisan. Please contact us. By phone at 617-975-2001.

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Crossroads Trade: critters

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. All around the world, people's lives are connected to animals. From prehistory to the present, stories and art depict these relationships, painted on cave walls, carved in bone, wood or stone, molded out of clay or wax, fashioned from fibers and woven from cloth into textiles. At Crossroads Trade, we've gathered whimsical, exuberant, ingenious critters of many species and every conceivable medium from five continents. Our palm fiber animals from the Philippines are s...

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Crossroads Trade: Fair Trade Jewelry from around the world

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Dolls and Folk Toys. Day of the Dead. The desire to adorn is ancient and universal. For thousands of years, jewelry has been a form of exuberant cultural expression, as currency, religious symbol, garment closure or display of status. We're amazed by artisans' resourcefulness. In addition to shells, semi-precious stones, bone and metal, they fashion adornments from paper, cans, wire, rubber, grass and glass. Your purchases enable Kenyan and Nepalese mothers to send their daughters to school. Our stock of...