The Green Wood Spoon
Years ago I stumbled across wooden spoons in a museum whilst living abroad in Sweden on a student inter-university exchange. At the time I remember thinking how cool and beautifully handcrafted they were.
A couple years later I felt a need to reconnect and pursue woodwork once again, however at that stage I was living in the top floor of a unit complex in Brisbane. Despite the limitations, spoon carving jumped into my life with full force.
Spoon carving requires few tools – axe, straight and bent knives (photos 1, 2) – and can be performed anywhere. It makes minimal noise, wood chips not dust, and utilises freely scavenged timber. These are the factors that have caused a boom in this craft around the globe in recent years.
Why green woodworking?
Spoon carving traditions mainly originate from Scandinavian, Celtic and Roman cultures. My interest in lies in green woodcarving that
