Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Cloak and Dagger Ritual Tools

I’ve been studying knife-making, stone carving, and related stuff with Rob II for a while now. What am I going to do with it? Who knows? Maybe I’ll start making my own weaving tools in my abundant spare time. (Ha!) For now, I’m just helping him with his production in whatever ways I can.

He’s teaching me to carve lots of nifty things:
metal: copper, bronze, nickel
semi-precious stone: lapis, amber, marble, granite, labradorite
tusk: fossilized walrus tusk, marine ivory
antler: elk horn, stag horn, bull horn
wood: purpleheart, cocobolo, ziracote, ebony, canary wood, avocado, holly, boxwood

We’re making knives, pipes, hair sticks, hair forks, combs, and all sort of other cool stuff. It will be a little while before the stuff I make is worth anything. Until then, the things that Rob makes can be found on my Etsy and eBay sites:
http://blossommerz.etsy.com and http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/blossommerz. It’s all hand made and priced reasonably.

When I get a little time on my new loom, you’ll start seeing my weaving in there, too. Drop by and see what’s available!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Update! I've opened a new Etsy store full of hand weaving. You can find it here: http://etsy.com/shop/WeavingMonk