ring set

Suspended from shimmering golden cords, these adorable bird ornaments are ready to take flight. Balinese artisan Komang Sri uses hibiscus wood to hand carve the ornaments, engraving the birds with stylized details. A light polish allows the wood's attractive natural grain to shine through.

Carved from crocodile wood and painted by hand, this diminutive box depicts Subali amid birds and flowers. Gung Gus creates the lovely design. The Hindu epic Ramayana tells how Sugriwa and his brother Subali bathed in the enchanted lake of the forest, thus turning into monkeys and becoming kings of different kingdoms. They helped Rama rescue Sita from the evil king Rahwana.

Celebrating the beauty of traditional kawung motifs, Balinese artisan Yuni Kristina designs this fine silk shawl with a floral border in indigo, burgundy, and black over a body of ecru. Filled with beautiful azalea motifs, this entrancing shawl is finished with long, elegant fringes at each end.

Ferns flourish in a forest of deep red silk. Created in batik, the motifs are bordered with a band of abstract butterflies. The exquisite fringed scarf comes from Melati's Collection.

Golden rings intertwine on a glowing expanse of silk. The intricate circles are created by hand in batik. Versatile and lovely, the exquisite fringed shawl comes from Melati's Collection.

Melati presents this shawl inside a custom made gift box.

This natural fiber journal, handcrafted by Balinese artisan Komang Sulaksana, features a pandan leaf cover, cinnamon and grass cord binding and 100 pages of rice straw paper perfect for jotting notes, memories, dreams, drawings or poetry. The artisan relishes in the challenge of melding different mediums, relying on both his artistic talent, and on natural fibers, for all of his work. "Creating new designs is so much fun for me," he says. "Arranging different kinds of materials together is not a hard thing to do but, of course, it requires patience and skill."