The stall’s story

Timber & Twine is workshop woodwork in the oldest sense: what the storm brings down, the bench brings back. Ed Carwyn collects windblown hardwoods from estates around the Welsh Marches — walnut, oak, cherry and the occasional figure-heavy sycamore — and air-dries it for two years before a board is even marked out.

The designs leave the timber in charge. Boards keep their live edges where the tree grew them; spoons are carved to the grain’s own curve rather than against it; end-grain chopping blocks are laminated from offcuts so nothing usable is ever burned or binned. Everything is finished in food-safe cold-pressed oil and beeswax from the same county, refreshed with a five-minute rub a couple of times a year.

Each piece is one of a kind and photographed individually before listing — the board you see is the board you get, with its measurements and weight stated honestly. Engraving is offered on boards for weddings and anniversaries, hand-lettered rather than machine-burned, positioned so it sits with the grain instead of fighting it.

Offcuts become butter knives and coasters; shavings go to a neighbour’s smokehouse. Very little leaves the workshop as waste, which is the whole idea.