Tudor Monastery Farm by Peter Ginn

Author:Peter Ginn
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448141722
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

WOODEN BOWLS

The King might have eaten off silver and his lords off pewter dishes, but most people, whether monks or lay people, ate and drank out of wooden bowls. Such bowls were cheap, shatter proof, insulated and individual. They were made by professional wood turners working at a pole lathe and one could be found in every third or fourth village, supplying the local district. As well as wooden bowls to eat and drink out of, wood turners also produced platters and large bowls for use in the kitchen, brewhouse and dairy.

“WOOD TURNERS COULD BE FOUND IN EVERY THIRD OR FOURTH VILLAGE, SUPPLYING THE LOCAL DISTRICT”

We needed a good store of bowls, so I went off to see the appropriately named Robin Wood: the only professional pole lathe worker in Britain and a man with a passion for late medieval and early Tudor ‘treen’ (the correct word for wooden vessels of all shapes and sizes).

Robin Wood began by roughing out the blanks

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