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Basket, gardening
This trug has an ash or chestnut rim with boards of willow nailed with copper nails. Trugs, widely used in gardening, are an unusual type of basket in that they are ‘assembled’ rather than woven, the pieces being nailed together. Nearly all trug baskets are made in Hertsmonceux, East Sussex. The making of trugs was revived in the first quarter of the nineteenth century by Thomas Smith, and this ba…
Contributors
- Thomas Smith & Son
Subject
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Basketry
- DOMESTIC AND FAMILY LIFE : gardening
Type of item
- Basket, gardening
Date
- 1945/1946
- 1945/1946
Contributors
- Thomas Smith & Son
Subject
- CRAFTS : wood-working
- Basketry
- DOMESTIC AND FAMILY LIFE : gardening
Type of item
- Basket, gardening
Date
- 1945/1946
- 1945/1946
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Places
- Herstmonceux
- Herstmonceux
- United Kingdom
Provenance
- Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Identifier
- 60/440
- 9911
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/Museu/ProvidedCHO/Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading/9911
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-07-31T16:16:08.062Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-10-18T15:44:57.982Z