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A dough trough from Aberdour Castle, Fife, Scotland. A kneading trough is a term for the vessel in which dough, after being mixed and leavened was left to swell or ferment. The first citation of kneading-trough in the Oxford English Dictionary is Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, 1386. Flour was not stored, perhaps for fear of insect infestation, but ...
Once logs arrive at the Great Alaskan Bowl Co., they go through a 22-step process of carving, sanding and oiling to become wooden bowls, says cutter and sander Klaus Reeck.
Burl bowl, probably USA, circa 1820 Lathe-turned Walnut Burl Bowl, painted c. 1936. In North America, Native Americans carved tree burls into durable wooden objects with uniquely marbled grain. [6] Burls were rare in Europe because the old-growth forests where they are commonly found had largely been logged out of existence. [7]
Wooden trencher from Västergötland, Sweden, mid-17th century A modern cheeseboard A trencher (from Old French trancher 'to cut') is a type of tableware , commonly used in medieval cuisine . A trencher was originally a flat round of (usually stale ) bread used as a plate , upon which the food could be placed to eat. [ 1 ]
Ridge and furrow is an archaeological pattern of ridges (Medieval Latin: sliones) and troughs created by a system of ploughing used in Europe during the Middle Ages, typical of the open-field system. It is also known as rig (or rigg) and furrow, mostly in the North East of England and in Scotland. [1] [2] [3]
Trough zithers are a group of African stringed instruments or chordophones whose members resemble wooden bowls, pans, platters, or shallow gutters with strings stretched across the opening. [2] A type of zither , the instruments may be quiet, depending upon the shape of the bowl or string-holder.
Silver bowl from the St Ninian's Isle Treasure. There are two known silver bowls, both smaller than most bronze examples at about 15 centimetres (6 in) across. These are the now lost Witham bowl, found in Lincolnshire in the 19th century and now known only from good quality drawings, and a bowl from the St Ninian's Isle Treasure. The Witham ...
They range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares made for the imperial court and for export. Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and the first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era.