Pip Haydon, Dutch Elm Eating Spoons (Art & Accessories)

These twelve Dutch Elm Eating Spoons are made using green wood spoon carving techniques. Prunings from the avenue of Honour Elm trees in Coburg Lake Park and Edinburgh Gardens, Melbourne, have been froe split into billets. A carving axe shapes the spoon blank from the billet, a small straight carving knife refines the spoon shape and a hook knife hollows out the spoon bowl. The spoons are carved to an almost finished stage, wrapped in cloth and left to dry. A layer of finishing cuts and two coats of tung oil complete the process. The design of these spoons with their large shovel end bowls are influenced by an antique spoon, likely of Swedish origin, in my collection. They vary in length from 130–175mm with bowl widths from 40–55mm.

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