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Tabra
Currently all Tabra is on sale at 50% off while supply
lasts! Call for a list of items in stock.
We carry all of Tabra's designs. Below are a
few sample images of her work.
Internationally known
artist, Tabra Tunoa, a leader in the Contemporary Ethnic style of Gypsy Jewelry,
studied Mayan and Aztec art at the University of Mexico City and San Jose, Costa
Rica as well as jewelry design at the Masana Art Institute in Barcelona, Spain
in the 60"s and 70’s.
In 1973, Tabra returned to the United States where she began her design career
selling her home made jewelry on the streets of Berkeley, California.
As the demand for her jewelry outgrew her capacity to produce it, she began to
train young refugees from Asia and Central America to help in her workshop just
north of San Francisco.
Many of her first employees are with her today and run the shop while Tabra
travels to remote, exotic regions of the Third World. There she finds her source
of inspiration among the colorful women whose courage, strength and love of
beauty, in the face of overwhelming difficulties, still continue to fascinate
her.
Tabra gives a percentage of all her jewelry sales to Nari Uddug Kendra, a
women’s organization in Bangladesh and the Isabel Allende Foundation. Each year,
Tabra travels to Bangladesh to work with the women there to promote human rights
for women and the education of young Bangladeshi women.
Tabra continues to design jewelry today with as much enthusiasm as she did on
the street so many years ago. She says she has no intentions or interest in ever
retiring. Designing jewelry and helping women of the Third World will be her
passions forever.
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