Cockatoo

This kitschy-beautiful tin ornament is a mexican classic, which has reached worldwide popularity because of its dazzling colours. In Mexico, many of these decorations are being used not only at christmas time, but year-round. Whether the tin ornaments serve as an extraordinary eyecatcher on the wall, floating on a thin fishing line under the ceiling, teaching pre-school kids the alphabet or adding them to your easter or dry-flower bouqet, you name it!

Our mexican tin ornaments are handmade in the most traditional manner possible. With very specific tools, like metal shears and a wide arsenal of custom-shaped chisels, driven by hammers, the raw material is turned into beautiful ornaments which are carefully painted by hand. All of our tin ornaments come from a small family-owned business, located in the south of Mexico, with which we have a fair trade partnership since our earliest days.

We would like to point out that perfection, as in industrially manufactured ornaments, can not be expected and is nothing that we pursue at all. Minor deviations from the images in our webshop can occur and are giving each piece its particular charm.