the last sievemaker

[robin wood]

Today I visited the last chap in Britain hand weaving garden sieves. Mike buys green beech 4x4s rips them with a circular saw, steams and bends them then drills and weaves the wire. This one is for grading shrimp, he does cockle ones and lots for garden use. He is 63 and has no one to follow him so another trade that has been going for centuries may die out.

Lots more pictures on my blog here

http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2008/12/need-for-traditional-crafts.html

 

[Cobweb]

Thank you for that, I agree we do need some sort of traditional crafts organisation, otherwise we are going to be in the same situation as we were ten years ago, trying to figure out how to do stuff from photos and little notes in obscure text books.

 

[Kerne]

Thanks - fascinating.