How To Carve Welsh Love Spoons

In this BCD People Are Culture video meet father and son Kerry and Dave Thomas who share the history and techniques of the 17th-century Welsh tradition of designing and hand carving Welsh love spoons.

How to carve welsh love spoons. Keen to own your own Welsh love spoon or visit the Thomas Family Lovespoon Workshop. Note that for me even missing elements hold meaning. A piece of fine sandpaper is then used to.

Sailors would often carve lovespoons during their long journeys which is why anchors would often be incorporated into the carvings. Caged balls indicated the number of children hoped for. Welsh love spoons gouges.

However the writing agency has found a perfect solution for the issue that has been bothering the students in. It is time to congratulate yourself on completing a beautiful Welsh love spoon. In this episode I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon.

I first started carving Welsh Love Spoons for our daughters wedding in 2008. Here we see green woodworking expert Justin Sanford demonstrate traditional spoon carving. Certain symbols came to have specific meanings.

In the spoon in the photo I followed the stain with three coats of lacquer. For this spoon in particular the twisted stems stand for togetherness two people living as one. Carving a love spoon.

I then marked the diameter of the ball on the other three sides but whilst doing that I found myself wondering whether or not the ball Id drawn was the right diameter. Hence the phrase spooning. Carving love spoons is a Welsh tradition that goes back to the 1500s.