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Platesssssss and bowlssssssss

22/5/2016

So far I've made big dinner plates from 255mm to 275mm diameter, bread/ salad plates all about 225mm and small side dishes about 175mm, plates for toddlers/ baby's with thick bottoms the design is like a shallow bowl or deep plate with rounded rim, a serving platter, Cawl bowls for soup, pasta or stew they are around 215mm, some serving bowls 245mm and one big fruit bowl 340mm. They are made out of Air dried local woods Oak, Ash, Beech and Cherry .

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Woodworking is in my blood; my grandfather and great-grandfather before him were traditional clog makers in Brabant, the Netherlands. As a child, I watched my granddad at his special clog making bench working wood with interesting chisels. Me, I was just whittling sticks or would be found using my dad’s tools in the shed at home. Without anyone noticing, slowly but surely, I followed my ancestors to become the first woman professional woodworker of the family.

I studied graphic design before returning to wood as an apprentice in a small Dutch restoration business learning to make original old-style windows and doors with the locked-up mortice and tenon joints, as well as the new innovative techniques.
Link to my joinery website: astriddegroot.wordpress.com

Nine years ago, I moved to Pembrokeshire as a self-employed woodworker, more recently specialising in spoon-carving and bowl-turning. Today, my relationship with wood has become increasingly close-up, as I focus on intimate hand-carving, using hand tools, appreciating the different species of trees, going with the grain, fighting it, smelling it and ultimately loving it, creating my own individual style striving for practical and beautiful designs.

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