Cotswold Spoon Club: The Makings of a New Wood Culture

Hand-crafted with axes and knives: spoons, ladles spatulas, bowls, stools, chairs, tables and other artefacts made with green wood sourced in the local landscape.

Spoons are part of our daily lives and have been for centuries. Taken for granted and considered a mark of failure, the wooden spoon is having a resurgence as craftspeople explore the nuances of form, beauty and utility in space and time. Crafting wooden spoons requires many things to be truly successful: focus and patience, a grasp of positive and negative energy, light and dark, a relationship to the integrity of the material and to a legacy of making through history and culture. Spoon making is sympathetic to landscape, respects hand tools and celebrates the simple usefulness of the finished item.

Every month the spoon makers of all ages meet on the Duchy Farm to carve in the outdoors and share ideas of the latest handmade adventures and most importantly cake.