January 26th, 2022 at 1:08PM

hog-babe:

hog-babe:

im reading a book about spoon carving and i love how the author keeps referring to craftsmanship. it’s my favourite word of the english language probably

sir????

I love using plain wood best, however, because then nothing distracts from the form of the spoon. I like the egalitarian beauty which comes from a plain bit of wood. A nice clean, straight bit of sycamore is the cow parsely or stinging nettle of the wood world; this compared to the glamour of the orchid. I believe that the hunt for the rare or unique is to neglect or even despise the ordinary; when we carve a good spoon from ordinary wood we celebrate the beauty of ordinariness.

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  4. hog-babe said: @bogbeanie I have!! I think you actually recommended it to me a few years ago (or I just saw you post about it). I did really love it and I frequently reread sections of it too!
12 notes #:)#theres a guy in my class who i met at ahappy hour over a year ago and i remembered he carved wooden spoons#so we started talking about that and he just started crocheting and so had the professor!
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