gourds and stuff

Here's a nice website http://www.archaic-crafts.com. It's run by Dan at work and his missus for a village they met while on honeymoon a few years back. If anyone's looking for some genuinely fairly traded stuff or unusual gift ideas, this is a good place to start. A recent news report into abuses of the Fairtrade Logo and money by tea gardens in India may have left people feeling a little jaded about the whole idea, but there's loads of independent, small scale operators around for whom the welfare of their producers is their driving force. Enjoy. And try saying gourd without it coming out in a west country accent.