Plan B Imports is pleased to offer you the best in quality handmade Brazilian jewelry. We invite you to explore our different collections of carefully handcrafted jewelry. Choose between our handmade bio-jewelry line or our handmade fashion jewelry line, which includes: handmade rustic gold jewelry, handmade fimo clay jewelry, handmade crystal jewelry (including a line of fine Italian crystals), handmade beaded (and hand-knitted!) jewelry, and handmade children's jewelry.

We hope you will enjoy your visit!

Learn more about the raw materials used in our bio-jewelry line:

-Açai is a small, round berry that grows on majestic palm trees in the Amazon Rainforest. This palm tree produces cascading vines with bunches of small, round, deep dark red berries. Each berry has one seed. As one of the most nutritious fruits on the planet, açai berries have been consumed by Amazon natives for hundreds of years and its healing and sustaining powers are legendary. Now an important element of Brazilian jewelry, the berries are dried and dyed in many different colors, and used as beads for necklace, bracelets, earrings, etc.

-Babaçu is a palm tree native to Brazil. It can reach 20 meters high, and every centimeter of the tree is utilized in various industries. The babaçu palm is considered the "tree of life" providing an extremely important source of income from its fruit. The indigenous forest people believed that it provided everything essential for human survival. The seeds are rich in oil that is used in food and cleansing industries. This oil has properties similar to coconut oil and is used in much the same context. The babaçu leaves are used to make woven baskets and also serve as roof to Indian houses. The wood and seeds are used in various handcrafts, including biojewelry.

-Buriti is a palm tree from South America especially found in swamp areas. Its fruits, stalks and seeds can be used in infinite fashions.

-Coconut shell, from the common coconut tree is widely used in the entire Amazonia region. The interior shell is used in jewelry. The fibrous outer shell is often used in the manufacture of textiles.

-Golden Grass (or vegetable gold) is a special type of grass that shines like gold, and it is found only in one of the most remote and isolated areas in Brazil, in the state of Tocantins. The use of golden grass is controlled by the federal government that determines how much can be harvested each year for the production of traditional handcrafts. Only the local community can utilize it, and the production happens in the familiar system of cooperatives, which is the main program for economic development in the region. Great part of this work is destined to the international market; the handbags have been regularly featured in high fashion events and magazines, such as Vogue, Marie Claire, and Vanity Fair.

-Guapuruvu seeds come from Guapuruvu tree, originary from the Atlantic Forest. According to the indian legend, finding a seed of Guapuruvu was a sign of prosperity in the life of the village.

-Inajá is the fruit of a palm tree native to the Amazon rainforest. Local tribes consume the pulp of the fruit, use the tree’s leaves to build walls and roofs and the seeds for handcraft work.

-Jacarandá is a species of flowering plants native to tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Jacarandas are also popular in south Florida and the southwestern United States, notably in Phoenix, Arizona and Los Angeles and San Diego, California. Jacaranda can be found throughout most of southern California, where they were imported by the horticulturalist Kate Sessions.

-Jarina (English: the ivory plant): known as the vegetable ivory, or "marble of the Amazon", this beautiful white or cream seed comes from a palm tree native to South America. Each tree produces about 7 fruits a year, each containing about 10 seeds. When the fruit is ripe and falls to the ground, the seeds spill out, are collected and dried for almost three months in the tropical sun. It is dark brown in its natural state and requires a special polishing technique to bring up its beautiful cream color that is amazingly similar to the elephant’s ivory. It is an important, sustainable substitute to ivory, and is used to make buttons, piano keys, carvings and jewelry.

-Jatobá is a huge canopy tree growing up to 130 feet tall. The Jatobá wood is very hard and strong, over 125% harder than red oak. The tree produces small red flowers and an oblong brown pod containing 3-4 seeds with a pulp that is edible.

-Jupati is a palm tree found on the edges of rivers in Tropical South America. The fiber, stalk and the seeds are used in many different crafts such as jewelry.

-Jutaí is a seed found in the northern part of Brazil. An important resin is extracted from these seeds and is used by the paint manufacturing industry.

-Morototó is a tree that produces seeds of different shapes and sizes. The wood is very dense and strong, and the seeds are often used in handmade crafts in Brazil.

-Murumuru is a type of Amazon palm tree. The tree produces a fruit that is red when ripened with yellow pulp. Inside the fruit lies the seed, which is naturally oily and also edible. In Brazil, the murumuru seed is utilized as raw-material for margarine production.

-Pau Brasil is the famous tree in Brazil that gave the country its name. Its seeds have a wonderful vibrant red color that gives a lively cheerful touch to the native made jewelry.

-Paxiúba is a palm tree native to Latin America. It likes swamp areas and can reach up to 30 meters high. Indians used its wood to make archery bows and arrows.

-Tento, the naturally vibrant red tento seeds are very common in the Amazon forest and widely used in native craft work.

-Tucum is a palm tree native to the Amazon rainforest. The palm tree produces a fine, strong fiber and a nut consumed by Brazilian Indians. It is used for to make cords, bowstrings and jewelry.

-Tucumã is a native robust and heavily spined Amazonian palm that yields fruits whose seeds are dried and used in jewelry.