Uruguay · Found-material silver-set jewelry
No single standardized term documented
Jewelry that sets wave-worn glass fragments collected on the Montevideo coastline into silver, with a parallel line using broken antique tableware (loza), treating each damaged fragment's singularity as the point rather than hiding its origin. The documented practitioner, Silvana Ríos, trained at the Escuela de Artes y Artesanías Dr. Pedro Figari, works as Vanni Joyería (beach-glass collection 'reciclARTE'); one of her pieces won second place at the 2025 Premio Nacional de Artesanía, and another was selected for the accompanying exhibition.
Risk level: Vulnerable · Not Applicable — no UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage inscription exists for this craft at time of writing
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