How to Make Trugs
By woodlandstv
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Dominic Parrette deftly demonstrates how to make trugs using sweet chestnut and white willow. There are only a handful of professional trug makers working in the UK - Dominic and fellow expert Pete Marden use traditional trug making techniques here at the Hermonceux Truggery in East Sussex.
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I want to see up close what your hands are doing.First part of video WS see nothing but your face
Thank you for sharing you craft. I would love one, Unfortunately I live in the United States. If you can ship them, please let me know. Again thank you for sharing.
Ma Belle Draw knife
Awesome – this comment is representative of why I look at comments before the video!!
My reason for clicking on this video was in fact "What the hell is a trug?"
Freaking English – weird names for everything. Bonnet (not on your head), Boot (not on your foot), Nappie (gross, but having nothing to do with hair), Pot (a bucket, unrelated to a stove), and Trug – a basket.
I wonder if we'll ever just say it outright: The British quit speaking English shortly after England became Great Britain – which is to say "The United Kingdom" (which, incidentally, the Irish don't feel very "united", and in Canada – they speak FRENCH!!!)
Weird anglo-bastards!!! I guess that's why my folk left your folk back in the sixteenth century… of course, that whole "Bloody Mary" thing had something to do with it… and in this case, it means "bloody" as in "lots of blood" not "bloody" as in "fucking…"
Pip-Pip! Top drawer! Stiff-upper-lip and all, being capitol – if it weren't all bollocks and wankers. I wonder if one thinks of me as being a perfect ARSE of the wrong colOUr… perhaps I should get back to the centRE and be off from this theatRE, seeing as I'm in hospital….
I kid of course… better a toothy-brit than a stinking frenchman!! (who, by the way – in German, would be saying "Vielen dank." – twice.)
USA!!!!
heheheh……..
Do you sell these by mail order??
Aahhhh, so THAT is a trug. It's nice to learn something new here in California. BTW, that's some nice bass playing at the end of the video.
Do we Brits complain when coving gets called "crown molding" or skirting gets called "base board" or work top "counter top" (what do the septics count in the kitchen anyway). What about "bathrooms" without a bath or "wallboard" (we call it plasterboard) fitted to the ceiling? The misspelling of words like: programme, disc, metre, litre and aluminium. Also, a ladies handbag is not a purse – a purse is usually found in a ladies handbag. As a Brit I've known what a Sussex Trug is for as long as I can remember and if this video has enabled you to educate yourself a little then it can't be a bad thing. BTW thanks for the chuckle (or should it be chuckel).
Oh. What didn’t you just say it’s a half bushel basket?
Misclicked, its about Trugs.
I agree it would have been nice to have introduced a finished trug at the start. i had to google it.
Andrew Frink
April 11, 2018