Jane Mickelborough Blog
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This is a woodworking blog by Jane who teaches you to make wooden spoons in the style of the traditional decorated Breton spoons from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Jane Mickelborough Blog
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In the breton countryside nearly everyone had a wooden spoon and perhaps a knife to eat their simple diet of soup, pottage, vegetables and stew - a spoon was often a peasant’s only personal possession. These everyday spoons were kept in a porte-cuillères, (Breton: parheiler, English: spoon rack) that was usually hung from the ceiling or stood on a table. This photo is of a plain porte-cuillère in my collection, with the spoons it came with, from a cottage in the village of Guerlesquin in Finistère. Porte-cuillères were a practical storage method to keep spoons dry, aired and relatively c ..read more