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Our chess set pieces are individually handcarved either from Ecuadorian tagua nuts
Tagua Nut Chess Sets
Help keep ivory where it belongs - on living animals!
The pieces of our tagua nut chess sets are each hand-carved from multiple tagua nuts.
Tagua nuts are also known as Vegetable Ivory. The nuts are a renewable resource and are sustainably
harvested. The brown color is produced by boiling the tagua in vegetable
oil. Unlike painted tagua, this technique adds color while permitting the natural beauty of the nut to show.
Everybody wins with these tagua nut rainforest chess sets -- you get a unique chess set that's a piece of art unto
itself, and the artisans in Ecuador make a living by using good forest management techniques to help keep the
forest producing tagua nuts.
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Birds of the Americas Chess Set
$550.00
460-NAB
The hand-made chess board
is crafted from plantation grown wood
and measures 16" x 16" x 1/2".
(Sorry - out of stock)
Below you'll see close-ups of the chess pieces for the Birds of the Americas set.
From left
to right - king, queen, bishop, knight, rook, and pawn.
Pieces measure 2.5" high for the pawns (penguins) to 4" high for the king (eagle). |
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Classic Design
Tagua Nut
Chess Set
$120.00
460-Classic
These tagua nut chess pieces range in size from approximately 1 1/4"
for a pawn to 2 5/8" for the Queen.
The chess board (12" x 12" x 1/4") is also hand-made.
Temporarily out of stock.
Please let us know if
you'd like us to inform you when
they're in stock again.
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Close-up view of the Knight, Rook & Pawn
Your purchase of a tagua nut chess set encourages communities in Ecuador to keep the rainforests healthy and alive.
If you would like to learn more about tagua palm nuts, or see other carved tagua nut products, please see our
Tagua Introduction page.
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