Same bench brush form, stiffer bristle. Arenga is a natural plant fibre drawn from the Arenga Pinnata Palm, native to tropical Asia. The bristle is noticeably firmer than tampico, which suits it to corners, mouldings, the dust that gathers in the joins of a wooden floor.
Hand-bound in coloured nylon cord against an oak bark tanned leather handle, with a thin strip of woven oak set into the design as a nod to Simon's swill work.
The brush is made to hang. Put it on a hook in the kitchen, the workshop, the garden shed. There is a pleasure in living with one's tools out.
The oak inset ties this brush back to oak swill, the basketry tradition Simon keeps alive: split, cleaved, dressed, woven by hand. Both crafts are rare.
Simon Cooper · The Bumbling BasketeerSame bench brush form, stiffer bristle. Arenga is a natural plant fibre drawn from the Arenga Pinnata Palm, native to tropical Asia. The bristle is noticeably firmer than tampico, which suits it to corners, mouldings, the dust that gathers in the joins of a wooden floor.
Hand-bound in coloured nylon cord against an oak bark tanned leather handle, with a thin strip of woven oak set into the design as a nod to Simon's swill work.
The brush is made to hang. Put it on a hook in the kitchen, the workshop, the garden shed. There is a pleasure in living with one's tools out.
The oak inset ties this brush back to oak swill, the basketry tradition Simon keeps alive: split, cleaved, dressed, woven by hand. Both crafts are rare.
Simon Cooper is the only oak swill basket maker left in Scotland. He works from a single room in Crieff, splitting coppiced oak with a cleaver, soaking the strips, weaving them while still wet, the same way the form has been built for four hundred years.
Simon Cooper is the only oak swill basket maker left in Scotland. He works from a single room in Crieff, splitting coppiced oak with a cleaver, soaking the strips, weaving them while still wet, the same way the form has been built for four hundred years.
