Made in Ethiopia
From ancient times - when the old merchants bartered cotton, incense and gold along the Red Sea trade winds - Ethiopia has been known for exquisite textiles and jewels. A land of shifting rocks and volcanoes, its restless earth - over centuries - forged diamonds, sapphires, opals, precious stones and yellow gold along the fissures and gorges of the great rift valley. Green amber seeped from the trees of the North and yellow amber, carried on Baltic storms, washed up on the shores of Lake Tana. Cotton, the world’s oldest natural fibre, thrived in the mineral-rich soils of the lowlands while silk was