Arlie Pemberton’s collection of glass jewelry features earrings, necklaces, rings and lei designed to look like flowers and lei made from puakenikeni, plumeria, pua kalaunu and other flowers. “I ...

“Our jewels were shells, flowers, seeds, nuts, feathers. From these gifts of nature, we created our style of jewelry.” Perhaps the most precious Hawaiian ... one that was made of plastic.

Sometimes she made necklace leis by stringing the gardenias together using a needle and thread, as is common throughout Hawaii, but often she braided the flowers with lauhala, dried leaves from ...

The Hawaiian lei is known around the world. When visitors arrive on the islands, they're often greeted with one of these garlands made of perfectly blossomed flowers upon arrival. It's an ...