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Small Yew Wood Hair Fork

£40.00
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This small handcrafted hair fork is made from a stunning piece of Yew with contrasting deep grain patterns running down the pins and a clear knot featuring at the top. Yew is very strong making this a very sturdy and eye catching little fork.

Yew has been used for many centuries. Longbows were made from Yew in the middle ages. Pegs or 'treenails' were cut for Viking ships. Furniture makers use Yew to form the bent parts of Windsor chairs. Pre-Christian cultures regarded the Yew tree as sacred. Possibly because of their longevity they became symbols of immortality. Drooping branches of a Yew can root and form a circle of new trunks around the original tree. Later the Yew came to symbolise death and resurrection in Celtic culture. Thanks to research into the properties of the Pacific Yew bark, and a subsequent discovery that the European Yew holds similar properties called alkaloids in its leaves, we now harness these alkaloids for treating ovarian and breast cancer. It remains one of the longest-lived trees on earth. One of the world's oldest surviving wooden artefacts is a yew spear head, found in 1911 in Essex, UK. It is estimated to be about 450,000 years old.

The Yew in this piece has been gathered from pruning work I have carried out on several ancient Yew trees in the surrounding villages and whilst gathering wood to make Ogham sticks.

Measurements:

13.5cm Long

4.8cm Wide

This small handcrafted hair fork is made from a stunning piece of Yew with contrasting deep grain patterns running down the pins and a clear knot featuring at the top. Yew is very strong making this a very sturdy and eye catching little fork.

Yew has been used for many centuries. Longbows were made from Yew in the middle ages. Pegs or 'treenails' were cut for Viking ships. Furniture makers use Yew to form the bent parts of Windsor chairs. Pre-Christian cultures regarded the Yew tree as sacred. Possibly because of their longevity they became symbols of immortality. Drooping branches of a Yew can root and form a circle of new trunks around the original tree. Later the Yew came to symbolise death and resurrection in Celtic culture. Thanks to research into the properties of the Pacific Yew bark, and a subsequent discovery that the European Yew holds similar properties called alkaloids in its leaves, we now harness these alkaloids for treating ovarian and breast cancer. It remains one of the longest-lived trees on earth. One of the world's oldest surviving wooden artefacts is a yew spear head, found in 1911 in Essex, UK. It is estimated to be about 450,000 years old.

The Yew in this piece has been gathered from pruning work I have carried out on several ancient Yew trees in the surrounding villages and whilst gathering wood to make Ogham sticks.

Measurements:

13.5cm Long

4.8cm Wide

This hair pin is finished with a natural wax. It is eco friendly and non toxic, blending selected beeswax, Larch oil and essential oils to give your hair pin years of protection. It also uses no VOC's, formaldehyde or petrochemicals.

Find out more about the woods that go into making this hair pin here