A Hedgelaying Season in Spoons
16 October 2021: Blackthorn
To begin I took home some blackthorn, cut out of a gorgeously dense Devon-style hedge beside a deeply-sunken lane on the edge of Dartmoor. Blackthorn is one of the many magical trees in British folklore, a gateway into an enchanted world. I split the recovered branch wood, sawed it to length, removed the bark and the waste wood with a hand axe, and began to carve. … Read more