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Forest Craft Handbook by Richard Irvine
Make family days in the woodland even more memorable with outdoor whittling projects you can all enjoy.
Author Richard Irvine has spent his career as a teacher of woodland crafts encouraging children, young people and adults to get outdoors and create things using simple hand tools. Through this book, he aims to persuade more people to experience the delights of whittling outdoors in the woods. Forest Craft Handbook showcases 20 simple outdoor whittling projects that children can make. With an emphasis on safety and adult supervision, this book presents a range of easy and fun projects that children can make and enjoy hours of play with afterwards – projects such as a kazoo, mini furniture, duck call, whimmy diddle, rhythm sticks and elder wand.
Richard extols the virtues of exploring wo...
published: 22 Aug 2024
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CRASSH | Magic and Ecology: Anthropocene Magic | Richard Irvine
Richard Irvine's talk for the Magic and Ecology 'Anthropocene Magic' panel.
Lupa's talk is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQS-xOSUIk
Live Q&A, 15 January: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWD7NoAZYho
Follow Magic and Ecology on Twitter @EcologyMagic.
Richard's website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/rdgi
published: 07 Jan 2021
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Dr Richard Irvine, Cambridge University (UK)
"Winter Festivals and Traditions" conference, Oxford University, 25th Mar 2017.
Following the bear: the revival of East Anglian Straw Bear traditions
In Whittlesey and Ramsey, two market towns in the East Anglian fenlands, farm labourers led a ‘Straw Bear’ through the streets; one of an array of Plough Monday customs marking the start of the agricultural year. The practice seems to have come to an end in 1909, when it was forbidden by a police inspector as a form of begging. Yet what had come to be seen as an unruly and unsavoury practice was renovated as a valued form of cultural heritage in 1980, in the wake of the wider ‘revival’ of folk music and dance in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 70s. Emerging from this, Whittlesey is now the site of an annual festival of Molly (and other ...
published: 01 Apr 2017
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Richard Irvine: “Dust: on climate fatalism.”
Richard Irvine, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
“Dust: on climate fatalism.”
The focus of this paper is our contemporary fascination with ruin, and the growing sense of ruination as historical inevitability. The background to this is what I term a 'convergence of catastrophisms'. Over the past two centuries we have seen a divergence of two narrative frames of time; one describing gradual and continuous processes over deep time, the other, cataclysmic events in time as shaping forces in history. Uniformitarianism aligned with a sense of the earth's continuity, Catastrophism aligned with rupture, and in this came to be associated largely with religious perspectives that emphasised rupture and 'end-time' thinking with regards to time. Yet the recognition of the r...
published: 06 Jul 2017
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VFR Flight Over Dublin from Weston Airport N840CD
Family Flight in Cirrus SR20 over Dublin VFR
published: 07 Jul 2021
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Magic and Modernity with Richard Irvine and Theodoros Kyriakides
This conversation between Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerns magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment world, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about Weber's rationalisation and James Frazer's evolutionary model of modernity, and how they relate to ideas of belief, and magic. We then look at examples from Orkney and Cyprus to show these ideas in play. This is an interview that will be of interest to all students of secularity, modernity and belief.
This interview was recorded at the Open University's Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective conference in Feb 2018, and is based on the "Magical thinking in contexts and situations of unbelief" project...
published: 02 Apr 2018
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Richard Irvine - Interoperability, integration and data sharing...joining the dots
published: 29 Apr 2024
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MC programa 10 10 24 nota con Richard Irvine, CONDOR GROUP
Con la conducción de Tati Paultroni, Mundo Construcción es un espacio multiplataforma para la difusión del mundo de la construcción. Con base en Radio Wox 88.3 y la transmisión simultánea en las redes sociales de Instagram, Facebook, YouTube y Twitch. Entrevistamos a funcionarios, empresarios, profesionales, especialistas y exponentes del desarrollo edilicio y urbanístico, ingeniería vial y civil, infraestructura hidráulica, arquitectura en general, real estate e inversión inmobiliaria. El espacio, cuenta con el apoyo institucional de la Cámara Argentina de la Construcción de Rosario (CAMARCO), el Colegio de Arquitectos de Rosario (CAd2), el Colegio de Profesionales de la Ingeniería Civil de Rosario (CPIC), el Colegio Profesional de Higiene, Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de Rosario (Colegi...
published: 14 Oct 2024
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Whittling a Wooden Mushroom with Richard Irvine
https://richardirvine.co.uk
published: 30 May 2020
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CREATIVE CABIN SHORT 11 Richard Irvine 'Gypsy Flowers'
Richard Irvine creates 'Gypsy Flowers' in a woodland glade.
"As the name suggests, gypsy flowers were traditionally made and sold door to door by gypsies and travellers. They would have used young elder branches and inserted the stem into the elder pith.
Elder is not my first choice of wood for this project as it can get quite brittle and harder to work with when it has dried out a bit. I enjoy demonstrating this craft at shows and have met many older people who remember their parents buying coloured elder flowers from gypsies in the past.
Through a good deal of experimentation, I have settled on either hazel or willow for this project. Freshly cut, wet wood won’t curl and will be more difficult to work with so I like to let it dry out for a few weeks before use. If I can get hold ...
published: 07 Apr 2021
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Forest Craft Handbook by Richard Irvine
Make family days in the woodland even more memorable with outdoor whittling projects you can all enjoy.
Author Richard Irvine has spent his career as a teacher...
Make family days in the woodland even more memorable with outdoor whittling projects you can all enjoy.
Author Richard Irvine has spent his career as a teacher of woodland crafts encouraging children, young people and adults to get outdoors and create things using simple hand tools. Through this book, he aims to persuade more people to experience the delights of whittling outdoors in the woods. Forest Craft Handbook showcases 20 simple outdoor whittling projects that children can make. With an emphasis on safety and adult supervision, this book presents a range of easy and fun projects that children can make and enjoy hours of play with afterwards – projects such as a kazoo, mini furniture, duck call, whimmy diddle, rhythm sticks and elder wand.
Richard extols the virtues of exploring woodland, getting to know the trees in your local area and learning about their characteristics and suitability for whittling. He provides a thorough guide to the basic tools and equipment that are required, the timber he recommends and would advise against for beginners, and the techniques that will be used in the projects. Following this are twenty projects, with simple step-by-step instructions accompanied by photographs and useful tips. Dotted throughout are interesting nuggets of information about woodland folklore. There are also plenty of inspirational photographs, showing how much fun it is to get out into the woodland with friends and family and share in this relaxing, rewarding pastime.
Author Info: Richard Irvine is a qualified teacher with a love of the outdoors and over 20 years of experience in the outdoor learning field. An accomplished greenwood carver, he brings woodcraft into his work wherever possible by improving children’s skills at Forest School and running professional development workshops and recreational carving days for adults. His books include the award-winning Forest Craft, and he lives in Devon.
To see more about this book visit: https://www.gmcbooks.com/forest-craft-handbook/
ISBN: 9781784946951
Publishing August 2024 (UK)
UK RRP £14.99
US RRP $24.99
https://wn.com/Forest_Craft_Handbook_By_Richard_Irvine
Make family days in the woodland even more memorable with outdoor whittling projects you can all enjoy.
Author Richard Irvine has spent his career as a teacher of woodland crafts encouraging children, young people and adults to get outdoors and create things using simple hand tools. Through this book, he aims to persuade more people to experience the delights of whittling outdoors in the woods. Forest Craft Handbook showcases 20 simple outdoor whittling projects that children can make. With an emphasis on safety and adult supervision, this book presents a range of easy and fun projects that children can make and enjoy hours of play with afterwards – projects such as a kazoo, mini furniture, duck call, whimmy diddle, rhythm sticks and elder wand.
Richard extols the virtues of exploring woodland, getting to know the trees in your local area and learning about their characteristics and suitability for whittling. He provides a thorough guide to the basic tools and equipment that are required, the timber he recommends and would advise against for beginners, and the techniques that will be used in the projects. Following this are twenty projects, with simple step-by-step instructions accompanied by photographs and useful tips. Dotted throughout are interesting nuggets of information about woodland folklore. There are also plenty of inspirational photographs, showing how much fun it is to get out into the woodland with friends and family and share in this relaxing, rewarding pastime.
Author Info: Richard Irvine is a qualified teacher with a love of the outdoors and over 20 years of experience in the outdoor learning field. An accomplished greenwood carver, he brings woodcraft into his work wherever possible by improving children’s skills at Forest School and running professional development workshops and recreational carving days for adults. His books include the award-winning Forest Craft, and he lives in Devon.
To see more about this book visit: https://www.gmcbooks.com/forest-craft-handbook/
ISBN: 9781784946951
Publishing August 2024 (UK)
UK RRP £14.99
US RRP $24.99
- published: 22 Aug 2024
- views: 54
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CRASSH | Magic and Ecology: Anthropocene Magic | Richard Irvine
Richard Irvine's talk for the Magic and Ecology 'Anthropocene Magic' panel.
Lupa's talk is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQS-xOSUIk
Live Q...
Richard Irvine's talk for the Magic and Ecology 'Anthropocene Magic' panel.
Lupa's talk is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQS-xOSUIk
Live Q&A, 15 January: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWD7NoAZYho
Follow Magic and Ecology on Twitter @EcologyMagic.
Richard's website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/rdgi
https://wn.com/Crassh_|_Magic_And_Ecology_Anthropocene_Magic_|_Richard_Irvine
Richard Irvine's talk for the Magic and Ecology 'Anthropocene Magic' panel.
Lupa's talk is also available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bQS-xOSUIk
Live Q&A, 15 January: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWD7NoAZYho
Follow Magic and Ecology on Twitter @EcologyMagic.
Richard's website: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/rdgi
- published: 07 Jan 2021
- views: 921
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Dr Richard Irvine, Cambridge University (UK)
"Winter Festivals and Traditions" conference, Oxford University, 25th Mar 2017.
Following the bear: the revival of East Anglian Straw Bear traditions
In Whitt...
"Winter Festivals and Traditions" conference, Oxford University, 25th Mar 2017.
Following the bear: the revival of East Anglian Straw Bear traditions
In Whittlesey and Ramsey, two market towns in the East Anglian fenlands, farm labourers led a ‘Straw Bear’ through the streets; one of an array of Plough Monday customs marking the start of the agricultural year. The practice seems to have come to an end in 1909, when it was forbidden by a police inspector as a form of begging. Yet what had come to be seen as an unruly and unsavoury practice was renovated as a valued form of cultural heritage in 1980, in the wake of the wider ‘revival’ of folk music and dance in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 70s. Emerging from this, Whittlesey is now the site of an annual festival of Molly (and other folk) dancing as different teams from around the country, many of them with blacked or otherwise disguised faces, move through the streets ‘following the bear’, who is burned the following day. Yet alongside the apparent gentility of revived folk customs, as evening falls, folk musicians and their activities give way to the convergence of young people from the surrounding region for a night of drunken revelry around the town. This paper explores the different facets of this modern midwinter custom: as heritage and as night of joy in the cold of winter; as cultural spectacle and as people throwing up in the streets; as continuation and as invention; as cyclical calendrical ritual and as a symbol of the linear passage of time.
https://wn.com/Dr_Richard_Irvine,_Cambridge_University_(Uk)
"Winter Festivals and Traditions" conference, Oxford University, 25th Mar 2017.
Following the bear: the revival of East Anglian Straw Bear traditions
In Whittlesey and Ramsey, two market towns in the East Anglian fenlands, farm labourers led a ‘Straw Bear’ through the streets; one of an array of Plough Monday customs marking the start of the agricultural year. The practice seems to have come to an end in 1909, when it was forbidden by a police inspector as a form of begging. Yet what had come to be seen as an unruly and unsavoury practice was renovated as a valued form of cultural heritage in 1980, in the wake of the wider ‘revival’ of folk music and dance in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 70s. Emerging from this, Whittlesey is now the site of an annual festival of Molly (and other folk) dancing as different teams from around the country, many of them with blacked or otherwise disguised faces, move through the streets ‘following the bear’, who is burned the following day. Yet alongside the apparent gentility of revived folk customs, as evening falls, folk musicians and their activities give way to the convergence of young people from the surrounding region for a night of drunken revelry around the town. This paper explores the different facets of this modern midwinter custom: as heritage and as night of joy in the cold of winter; as cultural spectacle and as people throwing up in the streets; as continuation and as invention; as cyclical calendrical ritual and as a symbol of the linear passage of time.
- published: 01 Apr 2017
- views: 232
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Richard Irvine: “Dust: on climate fatalism.”
Richard Irvine, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
“Dust: on climate fatalism.”
The focus of this paper is our contemporary fascinati...
Richard Irvine, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
“Dust: on climate fatalism.”
The focus of this paper is our contemporary fascination with ruin, and the growing sense of ruination as historical inevitability. The background to this is what I term a 'convergence of catastrophisms'. Over the past two centuries we have seen a divergence of two narrative frames of time; one describing gradual and continuous processes over deep time, the other, cataclysmic events in time as shaping forces in history. Uniformitarianism aligned with a sense of the earth's continuity, Catastrophism aligned with rupture, and in this came to be associated largely with religious perspectives that emphasised rupture and 'end-time' thinking with regards to time. Yet the recognition of the role of mass extinction events in earth history, and debates surrounding the Anthropocene (a geological epoch of our own making) and the sixth mass extinction event, constitute, if not a return of the repressed, then certainly a revived 'neocatastrophism' within the earth sciences. In this way, models of geological time come into alignment with other catastrophic registers. The anticipation of ruin leaving its mark in time becomes a shared narrative frame where the 'end times' are not purely a narration of Biblical understanding, but are manifest in apparently 'secular' domains too, such as fears of techno-apocalypse and, of course, environmental crisis. What I want to explore here are the social effects of such end-time thinking, and how prophecies of ruin can prevent humans from taking responsibility for our active role in environmental harm: indeed, how our fascination with ruin even seems to titillate us with the fantasy of a world-without-us.
Climate and Apocalypse conference 30 June, 2017.
Find out more at http://censamm.org/
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cenmva
https://wn.com/Richard_Irvine_“Dust_On_Climate_Fatalism.”
Richard Irvine, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge:
“Dust: on climate fatalism.”
The focus of this paper is our contemporary fascination with ruin, and the growing sense of ruination as historical inevitability. The background to this is what I term a 'convergence of catastrophisms'. Over the past two centuries we have seen a divergence of two narrative frames of time; one describing gradual and continuous processes over deep time, the other, cataclysmic events in time as shaping forces in history. Uniformitarianism aligned with a sense of the earth's continuity, Catastrophism aligned with rupture, and in this came to be associated largely with religious perspectives that emphasised rupture and 'end-time' thinking with regards to time. Yet the recognition of the role of mass extinction events in earth history, and debates surrounding the Anthropocene (a geological epoch of our own making) and the sixth mass extinction event, constitute, if not a return of the repressed, then certainly a revived 'neocatastrophism' within the earth sciences. In this way, models of geological time come into alignment with other catastrophic registers. The anticipation of ruin leaving its mark in time becomes a shared narrative frame where the 'end times' are not purely a narration of Biblical understanding, but are manifest in apparently 'secular' domains too, such as fears of techno-apocalypse and, of course, environmental crisis. What I want to explore here are the social effects of such end-time thinking, and how prophecies of ruin can prevent humans from taking responsibility for our active role in environmental harm: indeed, how our fascination with ruin even seems to titillate us with the fantasy of a world-without-us.
Climate and Apocalypse conference 30 June, 2017.
Find out more at http://censamm.org/
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cenmva
- published: 06 Jul 2017
- views: 267
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Magic and Modernity with Richard Irvine and Theodoros Kyriakides
This conversation between Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerns magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such idea...
This conversation between Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerns magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment world, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about Weber's rationalisation and James Frazer's evolutionary model of modernity, and how they relate to ideas of belief, and magic. We then look at examples from Orkney and Cyprus to show these ideas in play. This is an interview that will be of interest to all students of secularity, modernity and belief.
This interview was recorded at the Open University's Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective conference in Feb 2018, and is based on the "Magical thinking in contexts and situations of unbelief" project, part of the Understanding Unbelief programme.
https://wn.com/Magic_And_Modernity_With_Richard_Irvine_And_Theodoros_Kyriakides
This conversation between Richard Irvine, Theodoros Kyriakides and David G. Robertson concerns magical thinking in the modern world. We may think that such ideas are confined to the fringes in the secular, post-Enlightenment world, but this is not necessarily the case. We talk about Weber's rationalisation and James Frazer's evolutionary model of modernity, and how they relate to ideas of belief, and magic. We then look at examples from Orkney and Cyprus to show these ideas in play. This is an interview that will be of interest to all students of secularity, modernity and belief.
This interview was recorded at the Open University's Contemporary Religion in Historical Perspective conference in Feb 2018, and is based on the "Magical thinking in contexts and situations of unbelief" project, part of the Understanding Unbelief programme.
- published: 02 Apr 2018
- views: 292
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MC programa 10 10 24 nota con Richard Irvine, CONDOR GROUP
Con la conducción de Tati Paultroni, Mundo Construcción es un espacio multiplataforma para la difusión del mundo de la construcción. Con base en Radio Wox 88.3 ...
Con la conducción de Tati Paultroni, Mundo Construcción es un espacio multiplataforma para la difusión del mundo de la construcción. Con base en Radio Wox 88.3 y la transmisión simultánea en las redes sociales de Instagram, Facebook, YouTube y Twitch. Entrevistamos a funcionarios, empresarios, profesionales, especialistas y exponentes del desarrollo edilicio y urbanístico, ingeniería vial y civil, infraestructura hidráulica, arquitectura en general, real estate e inversión inmobiliaria. El espacio, cuenta con el apoyo institucional de la Cámara Argentina de la Construcción de Rosario (CAMARCO), el Colegio de Arquitectos de Rosario (CAd2), el Colegio de Profesionales de la Ingeniería Civil de Rosario (CPIC), el Colegio Profesional de Higiene, Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de Rosario (Colegio HyS), el Colegio de Corredores Inmobiliarios de Rosario (COCIR), la Secretaría de Planeamiento de Rosario y la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). Además del sponsoreo de firmas privadas.
El programa radial se difunde masivamente por las redes sociales de Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch TV y Spotify.
https://wn.com/Mc_Programa_10_10_24_Nota_Con_Richard_Irvine,_Condor_Group
Con la conducción de Tati Paultroni, Mundo Construcción es un espacio multiplataforma para la difusión del mundo de la construcción. Con base en Radio Wox 88.3 y la transmisión simultánea en las redes sociales de Instagram, Facebook, YouTube y Twitch. Entrevistamos a funcionarios, empresarios, profesionales, especialistas y exponentes del desarrollo edilicio y urbanístico, ingeniería vial y civil, infraestructura hidráulica, arquitectura en general, real estate e inversión inmobiliaria. El espacio, cuenta con el apoyo institucional de la Cámara Argentina de la Construcción de Rosario (CAMARCO), el Colegio de Arquitectos de Rosario (CAd2), el Colegio de Profesionales de la Ingeniería Civil de Rosario (CPIC), el Colegio Profesional de Higiene, Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional de Rosario (Colegio HyS), el Colegio de Corredores Inmobiliarios de Rosario (COCIR), la Secretaría de Planeamiento de Rosario y la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR). Además del sponsoreo de firmas privadas.
El programa radial se difunde masivamente por las redes sociales de Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch TV y Spotify.
- published: 14 Oct 2024
- views: 7
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CREATIVE CABIN SHORT 11 Richard Irvine 'Gypsy Flowers'
Richard Irvine creates 'Gypsy Flowers' in a woodland glade.
"As the name suggests, gypsy flowers were traditionally made and sold door to door by gypsies and t...
Richard Irvine creates 'Gypsy Flowers' in a woodland glade.
"As the name suggests, gypsy flowers were traditionally made and sold door to door by gypsies and travellers. They would have used young elder branches and inserted the stem into the elder pith.
Elder is not my first choice of wood for this project as it can get quite brittle and harder to work with when it has dried out a bit. I enjoy demonstrating this craft at shows and have met many older people who remember their parents buying coloured elder flowers from gypsies in the past.
Through a good deal of experimentation, I have settled on either hazel or willow for this project. Freshly cut, wet wood won’t curl and will be more difficult to work with so I like to let it dry out for a few weeks before use. If I can get hold of overgrown willow, particularly the variety Salix viminalis, which is used in living willow structures, then I will often peel it and speed dry it in the car for a couple of days until it becomes ready to use.”
About the process: I like making things out of wood. The simpler the better. Sometimes I am motivated by perfecting the final product but usually process is everything. I make a very small percentage of my income from craft so it is never affected by the stress of production, marketing or selling. It is all about chasing that elusive state of flow; the total, relaxed absorption in the task which takes over and excludes all conscious rumination. In 20 years of regular making, Gypsy flowers are the one thing that I never tire of making. The process is relaxing, meditative and not physically demanding apart from on the forearms and hands after a full day of making 100 flowers. Sitting out in the woods on a cold, sunny, February morning tops it all off nicely.
richardirvine.co.uk
https://wn.com/Creative_Cabin_Short_11_Richard_Irvine_'Gypsy_Flowers'
Richard Irvine creates 'Gypsy Flowers' in a woodland glade.
"As the name suggests, gypsy flowers were traditionally made and sold door to door by gypsies and travellers. They would have used young elder branches and inserted the stem into the elder pith.
Elder is not my first choice of wood for this project as it can get quite brittle and harder to work with when it has dried out a bit. I enjoy demonstrating this craft at shows and have met many older people who remember their parents buying coloured elder flowers from gypsies in the past.
Through a good deal of experimentation, I have settled on either hazel or willow for this project. Freshly cut, wet wood won’t curl and will be more difficult to work with so I like to let it dry out for a few weeks before use. If I can get hold of overgrown willow, particularly the variety Salix viminalis, which is used in living willow structures, then I will often peel it and speed dry it in the car for a couple of days until it becomes ready to use.”
About the process: I like making things out of wood. The simpler the better. Sometimes I am motivated by perfecting the final product but usually process is everything. I make a very small percentage of my income from craft so it is never affected by the stress of production, marketing or selling. It is all about chasing that elusive state of flow; the total, relaxed absorption in the task which takes over and excludes all conscious rumination. In 20 years of regular making, Gypsy flowers are the one thing that I never tire of making. The process is relaxing, meditative and not physically demanding apart from on the forearms and hands after a full day of making 100 flowers. Sitting out in the woods on a cold, sunny, February morning tops it all off nicely.
richardirvine.co.uk
- published: 07 Apr 2021
- views: 2236