Four-Leaf Clover - Good Luck - Plant-Based Ivory Pendant

The four-leaf clover is one of the best-known and most widely used symbols of luck. Finding or receiving a four-leaf clover as a gift is believed to bring good fortune.

Some believe that placing one under your pillow will bring good dreams.

According to legend, each leaf represents something: the first for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and, of course, the fourth symbolizes luck.

For the Druids, the four-leaf clover was powerful against evil spirits. The oldest literary reference to the four-leaf clover seems to date back to 1620, with the first record of it as a lucky charm.

Material

Corozo, or "Vegetable Ivory" or "Tagua", is made from the dried seed of the tropical plant "Phytelephas macrocarpa", commonly known as the elephant plant (Phytos = plant, elephas = elephant).

The plant, similar to a coconut palm, grows in the humid equatorial belt of central South America (Ecuador).

Each plant produces 8-10 inflorescences a year, each containing 250 seeds. When fresh, they contain a milky white liquid which, after 9 months of maturation, solidifies and turns into a white material very similar to animal ivory.

After drying, corozo nuts are cut into slices. The turned slice becomes a washer with regular dimensions.

The original color, from optical white to antique ivory, should be considered "the natural" par excellence.

Dyeing with natural earths emphasizes the shape and highlights its unique and extraordinary grain, very similar to that of wood.