For the past three years Caleb Pimm has been undergoing an apprenticeship with my company and, on 11th August, he completed his three year term. He was set a “‘Prentice Piece” to complete, which was a miniature Trug. In order to complete his project Caleb had to improvise small tools and design and make formers…
I mentioned last week that we were attending the Stock Gaylard Oak Fair in Dorset. What a fantastic event it was! And hot! Apparently the weekend was the hottest this year but this didn’t put people off, quite the reverse, with over 9000 visitors – the best to date. Andrew Langmead is the owner of…
Once again it is time for us to go to lovely Dorset and attend the Stock Gaylard Oak Fair. The Great Dorset Steam Fair has moved it’s date to the bank holiday weekend but there is no comparison as the Oak Fair is a leisurely event focused on wood in all its forms. Walk along…
The other day I put up a photo of Dave’s Trug which he had inherited from his grandparents. Our friend and local Trug maker, Richard Bingham, has advised me that Dave’s Trug was made at the Rich Brothers’ Workshop in East Hoathly. Rich’s closed their doors in East Hoathly several years ago and the business…
Saturday and Sunday 12th & 13th August we ran our second Trug Making Appreciation Course at the Weald & Downland Living Museum. We had a full class of really lovely people who thoroughly enjoyed making their Trugs. We run two courses at Singleton every year and all are fully subscribed so it is really interesting…
I said on Tuesday how Trugs are funny things but, to be honest, it’s more the people who buy them! There’s a famous Triangle in the South Atlantic where aeroplanes and boats disappear and there have been a lot of Trugs disappearing down that way in recent years too! We have a slightly obsessed lady…
Yes, Trugs are funny things, inanimate but capable of creating a lot of emotion in folk. Take Dave who found an old Trug in his grand parents’ potting shed. He wrote to ask if it was one of ours and when it had been made, as there were no markings on the bottom of the…
Last weekend we held a Trug Making Appreciation Course at our workshops with six eager students. This is the first time we have held a full course here as we normally hold these courses in conjunction with the Weald and Downland Living Museum. We had six students who all came from the South East of…
Over the years there have been a lot of people who have worked in our company making and promoting genuine Sussex Trugs and one was Jane Thomas who worked in our sales department when we were in Herstmonceux. Jane speaks fluent French and German and first class Italian and Spanish. When she left us she…
