Giant Hands Salad Server Set

This olive wood salad serving set in the shape of hands are handmade in Kenya. Artfully carved from a single piece of wild olive wood using simple hand tools. These are large -- you may have a totally different use for them than tossing salads.

• Measures 17 inches

Care Instructions

Hand wash with hot water and a gentle detergent. Let air dry or dry with a cloth wipe. Lightly oil with olive oil as needed.

Meet the Artisan

Jedando Handicrafts

Working with more than 100 individual carvers in Machakos, Kenya, Jedando Modern Handicrafts markets African handicrafts primarily made of wood and bone worldwide. Carving is a tradition in Kenya with the children learning the craft from their parents. Carved by hand using only rudimentary hand tools, olive wood bowls, salad serving sets, and animal-shaped napkin rings take shape from pieces of olive wood, mahogany, and mpingo, or "African Ebony."
An integral part of the organization's function is to educate the craftspeople on the need for reforestation to enable the products to be available for years to come and offer a sustainable income for generations. While wood carving provides the major income for many in the Machakos area, other craftspeople earn a living by further enhancing the products including painting the napkin rings and carving discarded animal bone for the handles of salad serving sets. Often the bone is "batiked" by placing wax on the white bone and dipping the bone a dark brown/black dye, resulting in patterns African mud cloth designs.