The Almond Tree Group of men and women create a wonderful selection goods ranging from clothing for men, women and children to bracelets of hand crafted jewelry and accessories. 

Beading

This group began simple assembling bracelets and necklaces.  They now create their own beads through the extrusion process.  Many of these beads are then hand painted in an eclectic variety of patterns, textures and colours.

Batik fabric is created when plain white cotton goes through multiple stages of placing wax on the fabric and then immersing the fabric in dye.  Once dry, the wax is taken off and a pattern is revealed.  This can be achieved in numerous ways. 

The fabric may first be dyed to establish a base colour and then wax is applied in order to create a pattern with the background showing through.  This may be done repeatedly depending on how intricate a pattern its creator wishes to make.  After each application of dye the fabric must dry before the process can  continue.  This is a time consuming process which results a stunning array of colours and patterns.  Each and every piece of fabric is completely unique as it is impossible to duplicate a pattern.

This material is then used to make clothing, quilt style purses, wallets, cloth covered journals and book bags.

In this photo a wallet is being sewn by an Almond Tree Group member in Accra, Ghana.

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"The group makes me forget about the disease.  It makes us happy.  We don't get sad.  The tree is where we gather to interact with each other and talk about our problems."

              ~Ibrahim

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"It is always important under the tree.  We do all of our groups there.  I am happy under the tree"

             ~Ahmed