With a petrified wooden bowl you always take a unique piece into your home, no two bowls are the same. From a series of petrified wooden bowls , they look alike and you can see they are made from the same trunk, but they are never the same!

What is a petrified wood bowl?

Petrified wood is actually a fossil. What many people don't know is that, just like a dinosaur bone, it's not really the tree or the bones, but a fossil imprint of them. This means that as the tree decays over the centuries, mineral deposits slowly take the place of the tree. In this way you will be left with a petrified wooden tree after 50 to 75 million years.

Where does the wood for the petrified wooden shell come from?

Our petrified wood comes from Indonesia from the island of Java. On the east side of Java you will find the Sukabumi region. A lot of petrified wood and jasper are found here.
The petrified wood has been underground all these years and comes up with work. For example, when new fields are laid out or a new building is built, petrified wood is regularly found.

In what color can you get a petrified wooden bowl?

Petrified wood is found in multiple colors. This has everything to do with which minerals the petrification process has had to do with. The main mineral with which petrification takes place is quartz. Quartz is colorless by itself, but when combined with another mineral it takes on color . For example, you can get a black, white, gray or red / brown petrified wooden bowl.

Examples of petrified wooden bowls and plates

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Where is my petrified wood bowl made?

As mentioned, the petrified wood is mainly found in Sukabumi, so logically the workshop of our supplier can be found here. Their foreman, Abdul, comes from a family that has been working with petrified wood for generations. He can often see from the outside whether the stump or tree is good for working and/or what it is suitable for. After the tree has been taken to the workshop, it is sawn into slices. Because quartz is extremely hard, hardness 7 on the Mohs hardness scale , it requires special tools. For example, a diamond saw is required for sawing. After sawing, the slices are processed on the outside to form a scale, then smoothed and polished.

Why is my petrified wood bowl unique?

No petrified wooden bowl is the same, they are all unique. You can see everything in it, such as the annual rings that were in the tree or the bark edges. What makes the bowls extra special is that they are very thin and you can therefore often see light through them in one or more places. That is why the bowls are very suitable as decoration in, for example, the windowsill or to showcase something that deserves a beautiful surface. Due to the hardness, the scales last a long time and remain beautiful for a long time.

Why our petrified wood bowl is fair.

Thanks to our special collaboration with Fosil Kayu, we not only know the entire manufacturing process from start to finish. We know who did it, how it was done and under what circumstances. Unfortunately, we see examples around us where employees work with toxic stones in poor conditions or even children are used for their extraction. This is absolutely not the case with us. We know that the employees work in good conditions, have permanent contacts, a generous salary for local standards, health insurance for the whole family and that Fosil helps Kayu with a better future. We are of course very happy with this and very proud to be part of this!

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