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Gifts
Treat your loved ones to a handmade gift this birthday, anniversary or special occasion.
Sustainable
Sustainability is really important to me and key to my work. It is the reason I started Cottage Coppicing in the beginning. (You can find out more about that here). All the wood used in my work is from either local sustainable sources or FSC certified businesses.
Round wood such as hazel, ash, and cherry I coppice myself in Ladyhill Wood, a woodland I manage voluntarily as a restoration project for my local authority. I also occasionally buy in branch wood from local tree surgeons from small garden jobs.
The ash and oak timber I use is mainly from my local timber yard
Wentwood Timber Centre, and any American white oak or beech I use is from FSC certified Mon Timber Supplies.
Handmade
I handmake every item available in the shop in my workshop in Newport, South Wales. From design through to sourcing raw materials to finishing each item and packing and shipping. (Except where specified). If made from Hazel, I even coppiced it in the woodland I manage locally.
I will periodically showcase other makers work in the 'Guest Maker' section.
Personalised gifts are laser engraved by a fantastic local business,
Bespoke Laser UK.
What my customers say
"Really lovely log slices and very well prepared, as bark is all intact and flat surface so smooth - delighted!"
Tracy
"My son loved this for his birthday"
Dean
