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 turkey-wing form, hand-bound in coloured nylon cord against a cotton strap. The bristles are arenga, a natural plant fibre drawn from the Arenga Pinnata Palm, native to tropical Asia.
Arenga is noticeably stiffer than tampico. It will lift grit out of a corner, a stone floor, the bristle of a doormat. The right brush for the work that needs a firm hand.
This is a brush to be seen with. Hang it on a hook in the kitchen, the workshop, the garden shed.
When he isn't binding brushes, Simon weaves oak swill baskets in the same workshop. He is the only person left in Scotland still making them.
The turkey-wing form, hand-bound in coloured nylon cord against a cotton strap. The bristles are arenga, a natural plant fibre drawn from the Arenga Pinnata Palm, native to tropical Asia.
Arenga is noticeably stiffer than tampico. It will lift grit out of a corner, a stone floor, the bristle of a doormat. The right brush for the work that needs a firm hand.
This is a brush to be seen with. Hang it on a hook in the kitchen, the workshop, the garden shed.
When he isn't binding brushes, Simon weaves oak swill baskets in the same workshop. He is the only person left in Scotland still making them.
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.
