Olive Wood Bethlehem Star Ornament

This wood for christmas ornaments is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Jerusalem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 1.5 cm. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

About This Ornament

Pick this up and you'll feel the grain before you even look at it. Olive wood has that quality, it's warm in a way that plastic just isn't. This Bethlehem star ornament is hand-carved at our family's workshop, the same bethlehem star olive wood factory my father built his life around, and every piece comes out a little different because of the natural wood.

Three dollars. I know how that sounds, but the price is direct from us, no importers, no retailers taking a cut. If you're shopping christmas ornaments for a church gift table or just want something real on your tree, this is it. Small enough to mail in a card, meaningful enough to keep for decades.

We get orders from all over, ornaments gift idea requests, bulk orders for Sunday school, people buying for olive wood star ornament for sale searches who end up coming back every year. That last one tells me something.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine Holy Land olive wood, hand-carved in Bethlehem
• ✓ Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1.5 cm, weight approximately 15 grams
• ✓ No two pieces alike, grain and tone vary naturally
• ✓ Works as a wooden christmas ornament, gift tag accent, or small decoration
• ✓ Suitable for crafts homemade christmas ornaments collections and church gift tables
• ✓ Comes with a certificate of authenticity from Zuluf, fair trade sourced
• ✓ Ships direct from Bethlehem

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A pastor in Texas ordered 150 of these a few years back, one for every family in his congregation for Christmas. He wrote us afterward saying people were still asking where they came from. At three dollars each, it's honestly one of the better ornaments christmas gift options I know of at that price point.

These work for more occasions than you'd expect. Ornaments order online for a confirmation class, a baptism favor, a wedding pew decoration. Free US shipping over $100 makes bulk orders easy, and we ship worldwide.

The Story Behind It

Most handcrafted christmas tree ornaments you find online come from a factory in another country with no real connection to the imagery on them. These don't. The olive wood comes from annual pruning of living trees around the Holy Land, nobody's cutting anything down to make a star ornament.

The families carving these have been doing it for generations. I've watched the kids in those workshops grow up and take over from their parents. That continuity matters to me, honestly more than I can explain in a product description. When you shop christmas ornaments from us, the price goes directly to those families. No middlemen sitting between your order and their workshop.

The handcrafted christmas ornaments we sell at Zuluf have earned 970+ five-star reviews, not because we're the flashiest shop online, but because people can feel the difference when something's real.

Care Instructions

Olive wood is low maintenance. If it starts looking dry after a few seasons, rub a small drop of olive oil into it with a cloth and it'll come right back. Don't soak it in water. That's about it.