Crafted using traditional and famous metalworking skills with recycled steel drums in Haiti, this Nativity Set is freestanding.  It can be placed on your desk or bookshelf as a reminder of the reason for the Christmas season, gifted to a teen or college student for a dorm room or apartment, or added to your collection of Mini Nativity Sets. Each purchase supports the artisan who handcrafted the piece. These are handmade items so each one is similar but not exact.   Share the beauty of the Birth Story through the rebirth of the steel used in the creation in this nativity.
 
The Story:
The Steel Drum Art of Haiti has been famous for decades throughout the world. Metal from recycled steel drums is cut, flattened, and put into a fire to be made malleable. Then the artisan traces the pattern onto the flat piece, and with chisel and hammer in hand, starts the tapping that cuts away all that is not the image. This process takes hours to perfect just the drawing skills necessary to create the pattern before tracing it, and even longer to learn the cutting and metalworking skills.  Artisans prefer working barefoot as they use their feet to turn the metal while working so their hands are free to hammer and chisel.