Costa Rican Natural Fiber Birds & Flowers Mobile - Songbirds and Blossoms Pixiorlocation Hovering hummingbirds browse orange trumpet

Hovering hummingbirds browse orange trumpet vines in the summer sunlight

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Costa Rican Natural Fiber Birds & Flowers Mobile - Songbirds and Blossoms Pixiorlocation Hovering hummingbirds browse orange trumpetThree strands of colorful birds flit amid tropical flowers in this cheerful mobile. By Blanca Padilla, it celebrates Costa Rica's varied flora and fauna. The artisan harvests the cabuya fiber she herself grows to transform it into sheets of tightly entwined fibers. She dyes the fibers, cuts the shapes by hand and suspends them beneath a pinewood ring. Cabuya fiber, 100% cotton fabric, jute, pinewood 0. 96 oz 27 inches L x 6 inches W