There is quite a bit that is not known about this image. Firstly, the WICKERYbowl is a great gift from a friend but that's how it'll always be known perhaps. The apples in it, well there were supposed to be three varieties grafted to the tree it grew on but it turned out that there is just the one and nobody knows what it is called - it tastes good and cooks well however.
The apples taste very good and this season the tree has sent up some long 'rods' that might just find their way into a 'bit of wicvkery' but what it will look like ... that' a mystery!
But there is no mystery about it being useful and a talking point just sitting there holding stuff that needs holding from time to time.
Then there is less of a mystery about the mats. They were made in Pavenham, Bedfordshire UK, by 'Mrs. Morgan' (AKA Pamela Morgan) in 1972 from English 'soft rush'. They have been in regular use since then.
Mrs Morgan revived Pavenham's 'rushwork' in 1946 after the war. However, her passing is a mystery yet Bedfordshire's 17th C rushwork wickery heritage lives on. So there we go!
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