Made-To-Order, Foragers Gardening Trug

£355.00

Whether you're happiest in the garden cutting flowers, or out foraging in the woods for mushrooms and wild herbs, or busy in the workshop with joinery chisels, this trug has endless possibilities. Fill it with a thermos, sour dough and a blanket for a stroll through the park or out onto the open moors. Made from British Oak bark tanned leather of 3.8mm thickness, and 1-inch wide handles made from Oak bark bridle leather, this trug will adventure with you for many many years, and if cared for will be handed down through the generations. Not too light and not too heavy, the perfect balance to swing on your arm.

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Made to order time frame: 1-2 weeks

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Hand stitched for durability and strength, copper saddlers’ rivets attaching the handles and hand burnished edges to close up the fibres of the leather.

Mix and match by choosing a different colour for the main body and the strap and add your name or initials to make it truly personal.

Your desired personalisation will be stamped onto a small piece of leather, which is then stitched onto the front main body

47L x 25W x 18D cm

The leather used for this bag (shown) is Dark Oak for the main body and Dark Oak for the straps.
Oak bark tanned leather is tanned using tree bark; this technique is known as vegetable tanning and is gentle and kind to the environment and the hide. Vegetable tanning has been a method used to make leather for thousands of years. Each hide is unique and different from the last, having gained the characteristics of the animal it once was, and due to its organic nature colours can vary from one hide to another.  It has exceptional qualities and retains the hide’s natural aesthetics like growth lines, grains, marks and scars which as a maker I celebrate within my designs. Vegetable tanned leathers absorb the traces of our life, maturing and ageing with a personal expression of naturalness and truth. Over time this leather will give a beautiful patina and an unmistakable warm shade that becomes more intense with the passing of time and daily use.

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    Inspiration and Techniques

    Using traditional tools and techniques from days of old saddlery craft, Katy works hard to design and craft items that are simple and traditional, robust yet practical. Inspired by the old ways of crafters, and the want to move away from a mass produced, throwaway society. Katy believes that the answer to a more sustainable future is to minimise short lived and replaceable items and instead make long lasting and repairable goods, using locally sourced materials.