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United for the People of Bethlehem

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The Heart of Bethlehem Project

Each purchase helps support local artists and craftsmen living in the ancient city of Bethlehem.

 

About Us - This page is under construction 

We are striving to preserve the beauty and spiritual depths of our past and traditions. We create our religious and tradition products from olive wood. These crafts are handmade by the Christian citizens of Bethlehem, both women and men are enrolled together with more than one hundred years accumulated experience passed down through the generations. We create our products in a tradition workshop with the smell of Holy Land Products, as hands work elegantly to produce our products with quality and style.

We are toiling to preserve the work of our mothers, fathers, grandfathers, grandmothers, and ancestors; in this holy city Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ was born. This project also ensures that the traditional art form will be preserved and passed on to future generations.

 

Olive Wood handicrafts are unique to The Holy Land where pure olive wood is a piece of the ancient past as much as it is a promise of a better future. Only from The Holy Land are such handicrafts produced from our holy olive trees. The olive tree is the symbol of our resistance and existence.

 

All the wood that is used is hand-picked, cut, carved, and detailed. From tree ornaments and rosaries, to large sized Nativity Scenes and sets, in addition to pieces for everyday in the home, etc, each piece is created by hand to develop an astonishing masterpiece. The olive wood used in these beautiful products is of the highest quality and is distinctive for its dark lines. It comes only from olive wood trees that are grown in our area. Once every two years the olive trees are pruned so that they may bear fruit and it is from these clippings that these handcrafted pieces are made. The pruned wood is stored nearly five years until each is dry enough to carve before being used by the craftspeople to create these exquisite pieces.

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