The tourist lathe

Just at the corner of Prince street, Port of Spain, there is a tourist gift shop that sell memorabilia related to Trinidad and Tobago. From pepper condiments to wood carving of the sister islands and a craftman with a special skill to the front of the store.

What is doing is carving a calabash with a common knife utensil and producing a variety of decorative imagery that make up the culture of Trinidad and Tobago or the Caribbean.

There is the Hibiscus flower with the Hummingbird, the palm trees at sunset and a panman with his steelband drums. The artist is faster than a lathe as the short video uncovers.

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• thebookmann
• craft
• trinidad
• calabash