Seeds of potential: the Caribbean women reviving a dying art

Louise Edwards has been making jewellery from tamarind seeds for more than 50 years. Photograph: Botanique Studios & Thomas Barzilay Freund

For a little more than 50 years, Louise Edwards has been collecting tamarind seeds that grow wild on the Caribbean island of Antiguato create earrings, mats and belts.

Edwards grew up surrounded by women stitching the seeds, but today she is one of only five remaining master artisans on the island, all are in their 70s.