One Perfectly Good Bucket
I found this bucket in one of the croft ruins in Wester Helmsdale. It had no bottom on it and a big hole in the side. The crofters were (and still are) extremely resourceful and frugal, and would mend what they could before replacing it. This bucket would have been a vital piece of equipment, so I mended it by weaving it a new bottom and wrapping the hole at the side with string. It's now a perfectly good bucket again...for everything except liquid!...and is valued once more, transformed from the rejected to the treasured.
If you'd like to see what this bucket looked like when I found it and how the work was created, please read this earlier blog.
1 comments:
Hi Julia
Really love this piece. Also beautifully photographed.
My dad was a farmer and my brother still is. I grew up with old buckets with holes in and I have a fondness for old galvanised implements.
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