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Traditional Sussex Trugs and Devon Maunds, handmade in Golden Bay, New Zealand

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Matipo, fig and feijoa in the chipping pile. It's been sitting there for weeks, it keeps raining in the weekend 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pretty though. #wettestwinteronrecord #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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I'm enjoying the challenge to make do with the fibre I have and use "ugly" scraps to improve my skills. This braid of lovely NZ Romney was a weird combination of natural colours. Someone at our local spinning group told me it looked like a dead animal 😆. I overdyed the braid with food colouring and fluke of flukes came up with this colour combo which I really like. But did I write the recipe down...?? #doubtit #sustainablyharvested #handmadeinnz #handmadegifts #handmadeingoldenbay #supportlocalnz #buynzmade #shoplocalnz #sustainablysourcedtimber #locallysourced #sustainablymade #chemicalfree #untreatedwood #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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Another beautiful frost ❄️ #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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Another photo from #tourdefleece2021 I had a lot of fun challenging myself to spin different draws with different fibres. I habitually spin woolen so challenge days were worsted days. Who knew short forward draw was so fiendishly difficult? 😅 My spinning wheel isn't safe in the lounge so it is great having a maund to cart around all my fluff, bobbins, lazy kate etc etc. You can certainly pack a lot of stuff in to them! #majacraftsuzie #devonmaund #splintbasket #sustainablyharvested #handmadeinnz #handmadegifts #handmadeingoldenbay #supportlocalnz #buynzmade #shoplocalnz #sustainablysourcedtimber #locallysourced #sustainablymade #chemicalfree #untreatedwood #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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It usually turns colder here after the equinox. Before all this rain we had a glorious run of frosts with ice still on the ground in the shade well in to the afternoon. Good for the alpine herb fields and for crunching in in gumboots, no complaints here! #sustainablyharvested #handmadeinnz #handmadegifts #handmadeingoldenbay #supportlocalnz #buynzmade #shoplocalnz #sustainablysourcedtimber #locallysourced #sustainablymade #chemicalfree #untreatedwood #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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Pārekareka ana ki āku tamariki tēnei kupu, e whakamahia ana e mātou i roto in ngā horopaki huhua kāore pea e hāngai ana i te mea kāore mātou e mōhio ana ki tana tikanga😁 Kei a wai he whakamāramatanga?? #kāorehangahēneti

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You spinny folk may know that we've he last day of the #tourdefleece2021 (yes, it's a thing). Here's some outrageously yellow wool to celebrate ☀️ Flick carded locks from our own Romney, dyed by the kiddies with food colouring. Flick carder made in NZ by @ashford, and willow basket may locally in the bay by @willowworks #sustainablyharvested #handmadeinnz #handmadegifts #handmadeingoldenbay #supportlocalnz #buynzmade #shoplocalnz #sustainablysourcedtimber #locallysourced #sustainablymade #chemicalfree #untreatedwood #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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Water everywhere and beauty for those who stoop to look #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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We use willow and hazel stems to make the rims and handles of our trugs and baskets. Winter is always busy steaming and bending these on to forms for the coming season. Willow especially needs to be processed quickly so it doesn't get sap stain. Tony has done two good runs of willow and is on to the hazel which can be kept much longer All of the wood we use comes to us by word of mouth or is collected on the riverbank near our house. It can sometimes be a bit of a process to find good clean lengths. One day (in say, 10-15 years time) the hazels we have planted will be producing strong straight stems and sustainable through coppicing. #trugmaking #trugworkshop #hazel #willow #aspenpoplar #sustainablyharvested #handmadeinnz #handmadegifts #handmadeingoldenbay #supportlocalnz #buynzmade #shoplocalnz #sustainablysourcedtimber #locallysourced #sustainablymade #chemicalfree #untreatedwood #goldenbay #goldenbaynz #anatoki

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Tony Hitchcock and Madeline Pemberton
McCallum Road
Kotinga, Tākaka
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