Eli Beke, Shrink Pots and Bowl (Art & Accessories)

*Gnome house shrinkpot with blackwood stave, oregon base and lid with Tas oak handle. *Silver Birch Castle Shrinkpot with oregon base, oregon lid and Tas oak handle *Silver Birch Bowl, hand carved finish. The shrink pot utilizes the movement of green timber shrinking as it loses moisture content to "shrink" over a base piece and form a canister. Prior to cooperage, containers were made out of branches and whole trunks to store goods/staples/cereals in a house. Those goods/staples/cereals were tipped out at times into a carved bowl carved from a half log where the wood fibre direction helps dictate the form of the bowl.

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