Purple is currently in Thailand, while Domenica and Lori master the distribution back in the States. Thai craftspeople work on both his designs and reworkings of traditional designs. Each piece has been hand crafted for comfort, aestetics, and joyous use. The jewelry not only supports the traditional artisans, but helps to ensure that such crafts are continued actively today. The Hmong place high value on silver-materially as a symbol of wealth and metaphysically it is believed to bind a person's soul together.
Women tattoo the backs of their hands to ensure manual dexterity in weaving and other handwork.
Supporting ancient ways means our childrens' children will inherit the wisdom that we have learned from our ancestors. I believe that abandoning ancient knowledge for a global, homogenized culture is a mistake. Our diversity is the key, not only for our survival as a species, but for our evolution. Indigenous Piercing Wear, in my mind, are aiding not only those tribes that make and wear the jewelry, but also contibute to the enlightenment of people in our own country. The aim in not to represent a people only by the ornaments that they wear, but by using that interest and appreciation of an aesthetic that may strike a cord in you, as a launching off point to then edify your own and as many other minds as possible, so we can better help each other.