:: All prices listed are wholesale to shops :: Retail prices to individuals are twice those listed ::
Welcome!
This is the place to check out unique, handmade body jewelry in a wide range of natural materials including: amber, bamboo, horn, bone, stone, and hardwood plugs, ethnic and tribal piercing jewelry, as well as publications, information, and contacts. All of our jewelry is handmade with love and full attention to detail-we've been at it in various permutations since 1992. We aim to provide comfortable, high-quality jewelry based on traditional designs that will be in harmony with nature and with the body.
We emphasize consistent home-grown quality rather than impersonal mass production.
We have had this website online for eleven years now - enjoy!
Please feel free to send your comments, suggestions, and feedback. Thank you!!!
:: WHOLESALE PRICE LIST ::
All prices listed are wholesale.
Retail customers may order our goodies, but all prices will be twice those listed.
Please click here for more information:
Wholesale customers: Businesses. Companies intending to resell jewelry in a store. We offer wholesale to the trade only. You will be asked to provide proof of business, such as a business license, resale number, business card, current advertisement, etc., to prove your wholesale eligibility.
Retail customers: Individuals. This link will explain what's going on with our pricing, how to order Organic jewelry, and also hook you up with special offers not mentioned elsewhere on this website, for retail only.
Feel free to contact us with your wholesale orders and questions. Our number is: (503) 240-0260.
Please call only between 12noon-4pm Pacific Time, Monday through Friday.
Technically, we are here until 7pm, but may not answer the phone if we are busy packaging our hearts away!
Priority is given to calls as we tend to be mildly backed up on email-please phone us instead.
We do appreciate it!
:: Natural and Traditional Materials ::
NEWLY ACQUIRED JEWELRY
To check out what's been added recently, here's the page for all new acquisitions.
It includes a listing of those items not yet posted to the website, as well as... body jewelry from natural materials: fancy green and black jade weights and plugs, hollow horn plugs with Marquesan designs, horn plugs with shell or amber inlays, shell hoops, oosik plugs, bamboo plugs with burnt designs on the sides, big wood spirals...
ethnic jewelry: Maluku Islands earrings, rare Tanimbar earweights, giant Vietnamese hook earrings, LOTS of amazing Chinese hilltribe plugs and earrings, Afghani earrings, Burmese glass plugs, an intricate Solomon Islands shell septum piece, New Guinea and aboriginal nose bones...
new silver jewelry: silver filigree hollow eyelets and hoops, Thai silver spiral earrings...
non-piercing jewelry such as: ancient bead necklaces, New Guinea necklaces, Afghani/Pakistani giant cuff bracelets and anklets, bracelets with butterfly wings, Tibetan mantra bracelets...
non-jewelry goodies including: crystal shells and dorjes, Burmese tattoo instruments in a carved wooden boxes, New Guinea masks and phallocrypts.
AMBER
Amber earplugs, both saddles and cylinders, along with occasional labret shapes. Gorgeous pieces! Saddles range from 7ga to 1-1/2"! Also: information on Baltic and Mexican amber, old Burmese amber plugs, amber and silver stash boxes/plugs, posters of bugs in amber, dice, and polished specimens of both copal and Baltic amber with insect inclusions.
BAMBOO
Simple, humble, and elegant. A nice inexpensive alternative, especially when stretching or switching sizes often. Naturally light, cylinder shaped, and hollow. My favorite grass! NEW: bamboo plugs with burnt designs on the ends or sides!!! Check it out!
HORN AND BONE
Water buffalo horn plugs and shapes include: bone dust inlay or engraved and painted plugs, hollow and cut out designs, white bone, antler, or mammoth ivory plugs, silver caps, upside-down U's, omegas, CBR's, square CBR's, yoni's, compact spirals, homegirl spirals, wicked spirals, Java style hoops, claws with balls or inlaid nail heads, labrets, and septums. We also have opal, shell, amber, and other stone inlay plugs, labrets, and one-flares!
Discover baculum, porcupine quills (even rare orange quills!), incisors, giant warthog and boar's tusks, bone tapers, goat horns, snake and human ribs, stingray spines, and shells! New horn plugs and shapes include: hollow horn plugs with Borneo flares, Marquesan designs, or Berber dots, horn rhizome hoops, and super tiny and medium horn spirals.
STONE
Stone solid and hollow earplugs, saddles, cylinders, septum rods, talons, tapers, conch tapers, crescents, ear weights, Aztec style labrets, dentalium shells, and more can be found here. Look for traditionally used stones like nephrite jade, quartz, obsidian, and many others such as agate, amazonite, amethyst, aventurine, carnelian, dino bone, jasper, lapis, onyx, petrified wood, serpentine, sodalite, tiger's eye, turquoise... Summer 2008: LOTS of new stone plugs, labrets, and septums have been added!!!
HARDWOOD
Basic information, pictures of jewelry shapes and designs, color images of wood grain from the species we use, definitions of shapes, and other information to make an informed choice. We offer black and striped ebony, chakte kok, chechen, granadillo, katalox, and olivewood plugs. Also included is a gallery of some of our favorite custom wood body jewelry that we've made. Plus, wood plugs with ammonite inlays, giant boxwood stash box cylinders, huge wooden spirals, wood hoops, and big ebony cross-over coils!
NEW SILVER AND BRONZE
Non-ethnic silver and bronze new jewelry, including plugs, spirals, and weights.
We have bronze protong earweights, heavy fox shaped earweights, silver cloud ear weights, silver and bronze light earweights, silver spiral earrings, silver leaf earrings, silver star cut-out hollow plugs, silver poppy bud or fancy Thai hairsticks, stash earrings, tree ornaments, new tribal made reproductions of ethnic silver earring designs (especially from Thailand), silver and vermeil Hmong style omega's, and various silver coils and hooks.
LABRETS and SEPTUMS
This page is dedicated to labret and septum jewelry in all materials. We felt that this compilation page might make it easier to look at all the available options at once.
Please visit the specific material pages to view full information on availability, prices, and sizing. Thorough descriptions and prices are found on those individual pages, rather than on this one.
:: Ethnic Jewelry ::
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Intro page
This page links you to the four regional categories of ethnic jewelry mentioned below, as well as a page on jewelry that has sold that we may be able to get again, and a writeup of our friend Don Purple, whose jewelry we distribute. Please feel free to let us know your specific requests for ethnic jewelry!
Note: We are making some changes to the categories of our ethnic jewelry pages...
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Africa and the Middle East
Currently featuring pieces from Kenya, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and Mali. These include:
Berber earrings, Tuareg earrings, Maasai women's beaded and leather pieces and men's copper earweights, Ethiopian earrings, huge Ethiopian clay lip plates, African porcupine quill bracelets, pointed bronze labrets, Turkana men's and women's metal labrets, Turkana men's leaf shaped septums, as well as Neolithic African quartz labrets. NEW!Now featuring jewelry from the Middle East, such as Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, including hoops, big nostril jewelry, and lots of Kuchi tribal earrings, anklets, cuff-style bracelets, choker and other necklaces, belts, and head ornaments, as well as Turkoman earrings.
ETHNIC JEWELRY: India, Nepal, Tibet
A huge variety of jewelry and cultures are represented here. Tibetan women's earrings with turquoise or coral, Tharu tribe earplugs, high karat South Indian gold plugs and upper ear jewelry, shell and glass Naga tribe pieces, traditional Indian ear jewelry (Gujurat, Rajastan...), silver, and more! Indian Earrings, hoops, ear plugs, weights, septum and nostril pieces, upper ear cartilage pieces, internally threaded barbells and screw plugs...
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Mainland and SouthEast Asia
Currently showing new and old pieces from Thailand and nearby countries' hilltribe jewelry, Burma, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, and the various islands of Indonesia. Including lots of Thai hilltribe silver jewelry, Vietnamese hilltribe earrings, Ifugao tribe (Philippines) brass or bead and shell earrings, old Burmese amber earplugs, new Cambodian cross-over coil weights, and even ancient Cambodian earweights or glass earplugs! When we have Dayak earweights from Borneo, they live on this page. NEW! Now featuring jewelry from mainland Asia too, such as South Chinese hilltribe jewelry.
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Western Hemisphere
This page currently features old Inuit (Alaskan) fossilized walrus ivory labrets and very rare earrings, as well as pre-Columbian gold septum pieces from Columbia, Panama, and Peru, obsidian and other stone Aztec labrets from Mexico, clay, stone, and shell earplugs!
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Sold
Ethnic and tribal piercing jewelry from around the world! This page showcases pieces that we have sold in the past but do not currently have in stock. We may be able to acquire them again and you can request to be placed on a wait list for these lovelies.
:: Related Items ::
BRACELETS
Our page for bracelets, bangles, cuffs, armlets, and anklets can be found here. We feature ethnic and tribal items (such as Thai, Chinese, Indian, and Nepalese), as well as those made from natural materials (wood, bamboo rhizomes, Baltic amber, stone such as: jade, carved serpentine, hematite, and faceted agate), cloisonne, red and black cinnabar, and base metals (such as silver and copper). We have many examples of amber and silver bracelets, African porcupine quill bracelets, Celtic knotwork bracelets, and lots of designs of Chinese bracelets with double dragon heads! Everyone gets wholesale pricing on these items!
OTHER GOODIES T-shirts and hoodies, information on items with our designs on them from Cafepress, poppy mandala belt buckles, brass, wooden, horn, or silver poppy bud or spiral Thai hairsticks, Chinese hairsticks, a New Guinea bamboo afro pick, wood or horn combs, a turquoise and silver old Mexican pendant, a Mayan calendar stash box, Akha metal belts, mounted butterflies, iridescent beetles, and dragonflies, amber and jade dice, ebony wood spirals, shells, stingray spines, bones, and a skeleton, oval cloth-covered boxes, Turkish skewers, a branding iron, publications (including Blake's book A Brief History of the Evolution of Body Adornment in Western Culture: Ancient Origins and Today and I Am Not My Body), handheld blacklights for identification purposes, New Guinea phallocrypts, Nepalese decorated goat skulls, a patch, Dayak wallhangings, Chinese women's footbound lotus shoes, occasional photos of a tribal people... as well as other items not shown on our catalog due to limited availability or size contraints... mainly jewelry not for piercings, which is sold at wholesale to all. Dayak, Thai, Burmese, and other indigenous tattoo instruments will return soon.
TWILIGHT
This page contains other items we sell that are described under the heading of Twilight.
We carry non-piercing jewelry in Baltic amber, silver, and jet such as necklaces, torcs, brooches, and pendants. Lots of faceted amber bead jewelry, triskels, spirals, and Celtic style knotwork can be found here ...even Russian birch bark boxes, amber dice, Baltic amber drop shapes, and Baltic amber specimens with insects!
We focus especially on bold and unique designs, with a slightly Nordic bent.
Everyone gets wholesale pricing on these items!
:: Support Pages and Helpful Information ::
ORDERING INFORMATION
Ordering information, including how to place an order, ways of contacting us, methods of payment, an optional order form for download, a link to our currency converter, shipping methods and fees (domestic and international), policies, terms, and conditions of sale... We do not accept credit cards over the phone or for wholesale orders; we no longer accept PayPal for retail orders. Payment is through COD, prepaid money orders and checks.
CARE INSTRUCTIONS AND MATERIAL INFORMATION
This page includes care instructions for Organic products (applies to all natural materials), our gauge, inch, and millimeter conversion chart (our larger one is here), information on sizing, shape, measurement, and other definitions, what to look for in wood and bamboo jewelry, finishes, information on endangered species pertaining to natural jewelry materials, and wood species to avoid due to possible allergic reactions or open grain structure.
Another section has been added: a listing of colors of natural and tribal jewelry materials.
PHOTO GALLERY
This page contains a gallery of photos of customers wearing our body jewelry.
Feel free to send in good quality photos or scans showing Organic jewelry in use!
LINKS AND RECOMMENDED READING
This has banners for linking to us and our links to other sites, with themes such as cultural anthropology, information on endangered species, and a few from close friends and family.
Also a recommended reading section with information on some of our favorite books, and a tools of the trade section with links to measuring tools such as calipers and gauge wheels.
DOWNLOAD CATALOG
View and download the online versions of both the current paper price list cover sheet (the Summer 2008 version on tan colored paper) and twelve catalog pages of available jewelry that make up our current catalog here.
This is the same set of pages we normally send for a paper catalog request or that we include with orders, only the paper ones are black and white printouts, while these downloads are in color. The pages show the latest and greatest of what exactly we have in stock now, ready to ship at a moment's notice. Thorough descriptions are found on the pages of this website, whereas the catalog contains more concise descriptions and compact scans. Individual pages are available both as jpeg's for online viewing and as better resolution pdf's for printing. NEW! We are now posting a version of the catalog with ALL pages in ONE file for downloading!
ABOUT US
A brief timeline and the history of Organic, rare pictures of team members, a who's who section, random public appearances, and articles in the media. There are plans to put scans of old business cards, fliers, and catalogs in here for historical and archival purposes... Probably more than you need to know!
CONTACT ORGANIC
You can order jewelry by e-mail or snail mail, however, we prefer doing business over the phone; please be include all dimensions and information. As some items may not currently be in stock or will have a wait as they are being custom made, please make sure to confirm with us before sending in payments. Thank you!
To add yourself to the mailing list or to receive the current paper version of the price list and black and white catalog pages, please call or e-mail us with your full name, business name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail address. If you are a retail customer, please send a SASE, $1, a few stamps, or a sweet note, to help cover costs. Or download it all in color right here!
Almost all of our images are scanned and shown at 100percent on this website and in the catalog;
exceptions will be noted in the accompanying text. Monitors may slightly alter image sizes.
For more information, click here.
:: Summer 2008 :: NEWS! ::
A major shift! Many items previously featured on our newly acquired page have been shuffled back to the normal category pages. Look for them under the appropriate natural material or world region.
I have updated our big conversion chart to go all the way up to 3"!!!
CATALOG: Our entire Summer 2008 catalog (about 4.4MB) is now available for download in one file! Individual pages are still available for download or online viewing here.
GIFT CERTIFICATES: We have devised a system to enable the purchase of gift certificates.
A customized image will be sent via email for printing that shows the amount of the certificate, the names of who it's to and from, and space for a message if you would like to include one. Please inquire!
GOLD: Though prices for gold have shot up dramatically last year, we have NOT raised our prices on our offerings in gold. This includes new ethnographic gold jewelry such as nostril screws, and antique gold from India, Central and South America. This means these items are a better deal than ever before.
RESEARCH PAPERS: I spent all of April working on a paper for the 'Woods' lecture of the Association of Professional Piercers (APP) convention. I have made it available online here: Basic Wood Anatomy and Behavior. Enjoy!
A completely updated version of the Wood Hazards paper has also been posted.
CATEGORIES: We made some changes to the ethnic jewelry categories: Africa and Middle East have been combined, and the SE Asia page now also features jewelry from mainland Asia, in this case, China.
SHIRTS and HOODIES: the latest edition arrived but were reprinted incorrectly. Stay tuned.
DISCOUNTS: Several types of drilled stone plugs have been permanently marked down! A rare thing here at Organic! Several prices are 25% up to 58% off. Click here to jump to that section.
In addition, several pairs of stone saddle-shaped plugs on that same page have been discounted.
Finally, bone tapers and horn hairpipes as shown in this section have been marked down to HALF OFF.
MUSEUM EXHIBIT: Erica loaned 39 items of ethnic piercing jewelry, 6 items relating to indigenous tattooing, a maskette, and 2 types of cheek spears from her personal collection to the Museum of Man in San Diego, for their exhibit Body Ornamentation: Artistic Representations of Self (12 May 2006 - 15 April 2007). A large variety of cultures, regions, and types of soft-tissue modifications were represented. Thank you for visiting!
SHOP LOCALLY: We encourage individuals wanting to place a retail order to make purchases locally. Shops will place an order with us on your behalf. We'll be happy to recommend a shop near you that knows our wares. Let us know your zip code, and hopefully we can turn you on to a store that can take care of you.
UNIQUE horn plugs with opal, amber, hematite, and other inlays can be seen on the horn page!
MEASURING: We have posted a conversion chart, that works equally as well for fractional inches, decimal inches, and millimeters. It's very thorough and goes up to 2" (50.8mm). Feel free to link to it!
SHOW AND TELLS: We do not have a storefront, but occasionally invite people over to look at jewelry in person. If you live in, or are travelling to the Pacific NorthWest, and would like to be informed of when and where these occur, please call or email and ask to be on our e-mail list. Information and updates about these can also be found here. We are open to suggestions if you'd like us to come to your city-just ask!
CAFEPRESS: We have an online shop set up for fun merchandise with the poppy mandala and other designs... check it out at: cafepress.com/organicjewelry. Some of my favorites include the lunchbox and the clock, which we currently sport on the wall of our office.
FREEBIES: We include Organic stickers with various images in your orders...
BROKE? Here's a link to our page for suggestions on trades and bartering. Ideas for both things and services are included. Nouns AND verbs! Also a fancy way to use a credit card if you must.
HOLIDAYS: We are closed on all Federal holidays, as well as Solstices.
Help instill intelligent terminology!
Please join us in our campaign to eradicate the recent trend of using
the word 'gauging' to mean stretching and 'gauges' instead of plugs... THANKS!!!
Organic is our company name. Yes, it's an adjective! What we sell is: natural body jewelry.
We are flattered that our business name has become the default description of an entire genre of jewelry, and that the materials we introduced over a decade ago, when they were virtually unheard of in the western piercing world, have become widely accepted as media for healed body piercing jewelry.
However, we are suggesting a shift in the terminology back to the use of the term 'natural jewelry,'
a much more appropriate and fair description, to avoid confusion with other suppliers.
Technically, organic can mean either:
containing carbon (chemical definition), or, derived from living organisms (biological definition).
Thus, stones, which may not contain carbon and are usually of mineral, rather than of plant or animal origin, would not technically be organic, but can very much be described as natural.
We do not mean to imply that our products are manufactured from organically raised or certified soil or species, nor processed using organic food standards. We mean the materials are natural in origin (rather than synthetic or chemical) and have a minimum of processing to turn them into wearable body art.
We prefer (and suggest!) the terms 'natural jewelry,''natural materials,' and even 'naturals.'
Jump off that bandwagon and reclaim the name! Thanks for your help!
Here's our version of an e-mail newsletter; you can sign up if you'd like to receive announcements by e-mail on new items, news, deals, and updates at Organic. There's also a couple of fun polls. Messages will only be sent out about 2-4 times a year. This is a separate entity than our mailing list. As usual, personal information, including addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, will never be sold, traded, leased, or rented. Sorry if they have ads; we don't endorse that kind of thing. Enjoy!
ORGANIC LLC
P.O. Box 17656
Portland, OR 97217-0656 USA
(503) 240-0260
12noon to 4pm Pacific Time
Monday through Friday erica (at) organicjewelry (dot) com
This is the place to check out unique, handmade body jewelry in a wide range of natural materials including: amber, bamboo, horn, bone, stone, and hardwood plugs, ethnic and tribal piercing jewelry, as well as publications, information, and contacts. All of our jewelry is handmade with love and full attention to detail-we've been at it in various permutations since 1992. We aim to provide comfortable, high-quality jewelry based on traditional designs that will be in harmony with nature and with the body.
We emphasize consistent home-grown quality rather than impersonal mass production.
We have had this website online for eleven years now - enjoy!
NEWLY ACQUIRED JEWELRY
AMBER
BAMBOO
HORN AND BONE
STONE
HARDWOOD
NEW SILVER AND BRONZE
LABRETS and SEPTUMS
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Africa and the Middle East
ETHNIC JEWELRY: India, Nepal, Tibet
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Mainland and SouthEast Asia
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Western Hemisphere
ETHNIC JEWELRY: Sold
BRACELETS
OTHER GOODIES
TWILIGHT
ORDERING INFORMATION
CARE INSTRUCTIONS AND MATERIAL INFORMATION
PHOTO GALLERY
LINKS AND RECOMMENDED READING
DOWNLOAD CATALOG
ABOUT US
CONTACT ORGANIC