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.
An oak swill basket bag built around a bottle. The small holds a 37.5–50cl bottle (a whisky or a gin); the standard holds a 75cl (a champagne or a wine). The leather lid latches over the top. The strap goes over the shoulder.
The wood is coppiced oak, split along the grain, cleaved thin, dressed, boiled, and woven wet. The leather is red deer oak bark tanned. Both are slow processes. Both are at home with each other.
The bottle is not included; the basket gives you the excuse to pick something good. It is also, off duty, a fine vessel for a flask, a thermos, or a long bunch of foraged stems on the walk home.
Simon is the only oak swill basket maker remaining in Scotland. The craft sits on the Heritage Crafts Red List as critically endangered.
An oak swill basket bag built around a bottle. The small holds a 37.5–50cl bottle (a whisky or a gin); the standard holds a 75cl (a champagne or a wine). The leather lid latches over the top. The strap goes over the shoulder.
The wood is coppiced oak, split along the grain, cleaved thin, dressed, boiled, and woven wet. The leather is red deer oak bark tanned. Both are slow processes. Both are at home with each other.
The bottle is not included; the basket gives you the excuse to pick something good. It is also, off duty, a fine vessel for a flask, a thermos, or a long bunch of foraged stems on the walk home.
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.
