orange peel boxes

[Carol Bedoya]

Could someone tell me how to make orange peel boxes?
I only know it's a typical California handicraft....

[Kingaroo]

I don't know about "typical"--- I don't see 'em around where I live. But I think I saw an article on how to do it once. I think you cut the orange and neatly remove the innards, then put the peel around some kind of mold like a wooden block and maybe bind it with cloth or something - as it dries it takes the shape of the mold....

[Kingaroo]

I found a site where you can buy them, with an illustraiton and brief description of how.
http://www.grand-illusions.com/tim/orange.htm

I also found a site that sells these and other handicrafts made in Colombia, but no good picture or instructions.

[chickenwoman]

 

     That box on the Grand Illusions site doesn't look to me like it's made out of orange peel at all.If you look closely you can see a woven pattern.

  And...come on Carol, do you really want to waste time evisceratung oranges, drying them, binding them, moulding them? Just eat and enjoy the orange...and use a margarine tub as a box.