Sacred by Design
Love Bomb Plain Bangle
Love Bomb Plain Bangle
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Product Description
LOVEbomb plain bangle – once a bomb now a unique piece of jewellery.
Available in three sizes (SEE HOW TO MEASURE FOR A BANGLE BELOW)
Sml 6cm inside
Med 6.5cm inside
Lge 7cm inside
The gift card enclosed in it’s box tells the story behind the jewellery making it the perfect gift.
Each LOVEbomb product sold assists with safe land clearance and supports the artisans to provide for their families and village development.
In addition, Sacred by Design donates a percentage of their annual sales back into the Laos community, focussing on education & sanitation.
For the round plain bangles I offer three sizes as standard:
Small is 60mm diameter/ 18.9cm circumference
Medium is 65mm diameter/ 20.4cm circumference
Large is 70mm diameter/ 22cm circumference
SO HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE BEST SIZE BANGLE FOR YOU?
Well, the 2 best options are:
1) Measure an existing, well-fitting bangle
This is the easiest option – just find a bangle that fits you well, and measure the internal diameter (across from North to South straight through the middle of the bangle). Make sure it’s the inside of bangle you measure, don’t reach to the outer edge of the bangle. Then choose the nearest size (bigger) from the choices above.
2) Measuring your hand with a tape
You’ll need a measuring tape, or piece of string.
Bend your thumb as far as possible into your hand. The kind of position you would put your hand into if you were putting a bangle on, with the thumb reaching toward the little finger.
Then wrap the measuring tape around the widest part of your hand. Keep the tape tight, it shouldn’t be loose – we are looking to get a measurement of the smallest you can make your wrist. It’s always so tempting to leave a bit of wiggle room when measuring, but you don’t want to do that!
Make a note of the size, or mark the string and measure against a ruler.
This measurement gives you the circumference (see the size guides above).
LOVEbomb Collection
LOVEbomb from Sacred by Design is fair trade jewellery made from the bombs dropped on Laos.
Once a bomb, now a unique piece of jewellery.
Helping Others & Living a More Satisfying Life
Sacred by Design is part of a growing group of companies called social enterprises. Social enterprises are commercially viable businesses that trade with the intention to make a profit enabling them to give back to a cause.
They donate a percentage of our annual sales back into the local Laos community focusing on education and sanitation.
Meet the Team
LOVEbomb Jewellery from Sacred by Design
If someone told me three years ago that by now, I’d be designing and making jewellery from bomb material and travelling to Laos to deliver my donations from the sale of these creations, I would have called them bonkers! I had been searching for more purpose in life since the age of 40. After ten years, I finally found it.
Today I work with four families in the Xieng Khuang Province, who make my own designs from safely sourced bombs that are melted and poured into wood & ash moulds. Our artisans work and are paid under Fair Trade Conditions and in addition to this we also donate a percentage of our sales back into the local community focussing on education and sanitation.
Three years on, we have helped artisans with income opportunities; delivered school and sporting supplies to children of the province; built handwashing stations and a mud brick library. Currently, we are sponsoring the building of a new kindergarten and primary school in a very remote area of Laos that has seen virtually no NGO activity.
Visiting Laos and seeing first-hand the positive impact that LOVEbomb has made is both overwhelming and humbling. It’s a win-win: I am now living with genuine passion for what I do, and satisfaction from being able to make a meaningful difference in the world. In other words, I am living my truth.
LOVEbomb Makers – Mr Sone Boummakuilay and Mrs Thone Thammavone
LOVEbomb Jewellery from Sacred by Design is made in Ban Naphia, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos. Our team of four families is headed up by Mr Sone Boummakuilay and Mrs Thone Thammavone. Ban Naphia is a traditional Lao Pouan village of 60 households. Sacred by Design follows fair trade principles to ensure that artisans receive a fair price for their products and benefits extend to the whole community. We work with villagers and operate under the principles of fair trade.
The recycled aluminum is sourced from airplane parts and bombs dropped throughout Laos during the Secret War in the 1960s. The community which produces LOVEbomb’s recycled bomb products have all been trained by Helvetas, a Swiss NGO, on how to handle the metals safely, including smelting and cleaning the aluminum before use.
Sacred by Design is committed to promoting safe gathering practices in villages, including supporting the efforts of Swiss NGO, Helvetas to improve livelihood opportunities in Ban Naphia. Based on the interest in spoon making in Ban Naphia and nearby villages, Helvetas has embarked on a project to make recycled bomb production safer and more efficient.
Specifically, they support development strategies to
- Improve kiln efficiency to reduce wood consumption
- Diversify the range of recycled bomb products and assist with market development
- Build a safe aluminum supply chain by providing villagers training on proper gathering techniques, and supporting the work of professional UXO clearing agencies
