Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
The Countryman's Favour is a small Harvest Token, the kind of piece a farm worker once carried at the close of the harvest. One reading places it at the annual hiring fair, worn by labourers as a badge advertising their availability for the next season's fields. The other places it in the hand of a young man at the end of the harvest, plaited as a gift to a sweetheart who, if the feeling was mutual, would wear it over her heart.
Lucy plaits the Countryman's Favour by hand from heritage straw and adds a ribbon loop. She describes pieces in this family as "tokens of luck, love and faith, using locally harvested straw," which is about as accurate a one-line summary as the form will take.
Roughly 12cm with a 6cm ribbon loop. Hang it on a beam, a hook, the back of a door, or set it down somewhere a small object can do its quiet work.
The Countryman's Favour is a small Harvest Token, the kind of piece a farm worker once carried at the close of the harvest. One reading places it at the annual hiring fair, worn by labourers as a badge advertising their availability for the next season's fields. The other places it in the hand of a young man at the end of the harvest, plaited as a gift to a sweetheart who, if the feeling was mutual, would wear it over her heart.
Lucy plaits the Countryman's Favour by hand from heritage straw and adds a ribbon loop. She describes pieces in this family as "tokens of luck, love and faith, using locally harvested straw," which is about as accurate a one-line summary as the form will take.
Roughly 12cm with a 6cm ribbon loop. Hang it on a beam, a hook, the back of a door, or set it down somewhere a small object can do its quiet work.
Lucy Hook-Child plaits corn dollies and harvest tokens in heritage straw from her studio in Layer de la Haye, Essex. Two of her third great-grandaunts were straw plaiters in Belchamp Walter in the 1850s. She is one of the makers keeping this Red List craft alive today.
