OUR PACKAGING
SUPPORTING LOCAL
Every jewel sold arrives to you individually wrapped and packaged.
Our Packaging is proudly 100% made/sourced from local Fiji suppliers.
We are ALMOST 100% reusable or biodegradable (less a strip of bubble wrap and sticky tape which we are working on!) In a country where packaging products are not always readily available and most are imported, this has been a journey.
Here's a little story...
For five years I had imported my custom designed Adorn gift boxes made in Hong Kong . Once a year I would send many many thousands of my hard earned dollars to a factory in Hong Kong.. I emailed my design through and 3 weeks later my entire years supply of perfectly made beautiful gift boxes were on their way to Fiji in a shipping container.
In 2019 I decided that even though I loved my packaging, it didn't make me feel good and so started what would be a year long journey to move all my packaging production to a locally woven version and paying my hard earned dollars to local Fijian women instead.
NAVUA DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN
I contacted my local Navua Department of Women and together we visited remote villages and spoke with many women and had many samples made. Communication and consistency proved so much more difficult than I had expected. The specific idea I had in mind for my hand woven voivoi packaging was too technical. I had to modify my design many times.
COVID19
Covid took over and I happened across two ladies from Nadi who were out of work and would usually be weaving for the tourism industry. I modified my sample to a design they were skilled at making, added my branded tag, bright turquoise Bula fabric and a Kula pompom as a zipper pull and now we are on a roll!
I now have a regular supply of beautiful authentically handmade Fijian packaging and in turn two women have a regular income working for themselves and from home. if you cant already tell from my 'About Adorn' page I am all about women empowerment!!
I give this packaging away for free. Adorn doesn't make any profit on this.
KULA POMPOM
Why the Kula pompom? Well personally I LOVE Kula! Its fun and bright and love the contrast of manmade coloured wool against the natural pandanus voi voi. The word 'Kula' originates from when feathers from the Fijian Kula bird were used as a colourful trim on woven mats which was later replaced with colourful wool.
All my tags, cards and branding are also produced by small local print houses.
REUSEABLE
Did I mention that all our packaging is also reusable? Store your jewels or reuse as a coin purse. The drawstring bag is a great toiletries bag!
I personally want to feel good about about the products I make and I want YOU to feel good about buying Adorn jewelry! Every purchase from Adorn supports a long list of local Fijians.
MEET TINA, our amazing seamstress!
VOIVOI WOVEN GIFT BOX LINED WITH MASI
Our gift boxes are perfectly woven and lined with soft Masi supporting a group of local women.
Our gift boxes are made by Fijian women using natural Voivoi. Voivoi is made by cutting the leaves off the Voivoi or Pandanus plant, stripping off the thorns and sunning them out to dry. You will often pass villages in Fiji with gardens full of laid out Voivoi to dry. Once dry, the leaves are scraped with mussel shells repeatedly until smooth. The leaves are then rolled up and boiled and dried again. This Voivoi is used to expertly weave our boxes.
The boxes are finished with an Adorn Pacific tag and lined in Masi. To make Masi, the inner bark of the paper Mulberry tree is soaked in water in strips until soft. The strips are then beaten with a wooden paddle which spreads the fibres apart to create a natural cloth like material.
These gift boxes are a treasure to keep in themselves.
