Olive Wood Unique Nativity Bell Ornament

This christmas ornaments with wood is handcrafted by skilled Christian artisans in Jerusalem. Made from genuine olive wood, each piece is unique with natural grain patterns. Size: 5.7 cm. Ships worldwide with free US shipping on orders over $100.

About This Christmas Ornament

If you're shopping christmas ornaments that actually mean something, this is a good place to start. It's a nativity bell, hand carved from genuine olive wood in Bethlehem, and it hangs on your tree the way ornaments used to before everything went plastic and identical.

Pick it up and you'll feel the weight right away. 57 grams. Solid. The grain runs through it in a way no two pieces share exactly, so what you hang on your tree is genuinely one of a kind. That's not a marketing line, that's just how wood works.

We've been selling these as an ornaments gift idea for years and the feedback is always the same. People say it's the one ornament that gets noticed. I believe it, because I've watched people pick it up off our shelf and just kind of stop for a second.

Features & Details

• ✓ Genuine Holy Land olive wood, hand carved in Bethlehem
• ✓ Nativity bell shape, handmade christmas ornament with a warm natural finish
• ✓ Dimensions: 9.5 x 5.7 x 5.7 cm, weight: 57 grams
• ✓ Comes ready to hang with a golden string
• ✓ Every piece has a different grain pattern, yours will vary slightly from photos
• ✓ Includes original Zuluf Certificate of Authenticity
• ✓ Zuluf is a certified fair trade store and factory
• ✓ These are handcrafted christmas ornaments, not machine-made imports

Product Specifications

Perfect As a Gift

A customer wrote us last December to say she ordered a small batch of these as ornaments christmas gifts for her whole family. She said she wanted something that wouldn't end up in a donation bin in January. That's the right instinct. An olive wood nativity bell from Bethlehem is the kind of thing people actually keep.

It works for nearly any occasion and free US shipping kicks in at $100, so buying a few at once just makes sense.

The Story Behind It

Most christmas decorations in wood you find online were made in a factory somewhere with no connection to the design. These weren't. This nativity bell is carved in Bethlehem, the actual city, the one in the Christmas story, by Christian families who've been working olive wood for generations.

The olive wood itself comes from trees that get pruned every year anyway. Nobody's cutting down anything. The pruned branches go to the carvers, the carvers shape them into pieces like this one, and your order keeps that cycle going directly. No importers, no middlemen, factory-direct pricing.

I visited one of the workshops a couple of years back and the carver showed me how he reads the grain before he starts cutting. He picks the wood for the piece, not the other way around. That's the kind of detail that makes these handmade xmas crafts genuinely different from what you'd find at a big box store, at least to me.

Care Instructions

Olive wood is low maintenance. If it starts looking a little dry after a few years on the tree, 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.