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 creel is the form that went to Scottish rivers and lochs with anglers, slung over the shoulder, hands free for wading and casting. The open weave drains. The shape sits flat against the hip. The lid keeps the catch in.
Coppiced oak is split along the grain, cleaved thin, dressed, boiled, and woven wet. A peeled hazel handle is bent in. The lid and strap are oak bark tanned leather, a slow vegetable tanning method that pairs the leather to the wood in temperament as well as colour.
Out of the water, this creel does other work. Fill it with kindling by the fire. Set it on a kitchen counter to hold market pickings. It does heritage and utility in the same line.
Simon is the only oak swill basket maker remaining in Scotland. The craft sits on the Heritage Crafts Red List as critically endangered.
The creel is the form that went to Scottish rivers and lochs with anglers, slung over the shoulder, hands free for wading and casting. The open weave drains. The shape sits flat against the hip. The lid keeps the catch in.
Coppiced oak is split along the grain, cleaved thin, dressed, boiled, and woven wet. A peeled hazel handle is bent in. The lid and strap are oak bark tanned leather, a slow vegetable tanning method that pairs the leather to the wood in temperament as well as colour.
Out of the water, this creel does other work. Fill it with kindling by the fire. Set it on a kitchen counter to hold market pickings. It does heritage and utility in the same line.
Simon is the only oak swill basket maker remaining in Scotland. The craft sits on the Heritage Crafts Red List as critically endangered.
Simon Cooper is the only oak swill basket maker left in Scotland. He works from a single room in Crieff, splitting coppiced oak with a cleaver, soaking the strips, weaving them while still wet, the same way the form has been built for four hundred years.
