SPOON-CARVING WORKSHOPS: IMPORTANT CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
We are taking precautions to protect the wellbeing of our workshop participants. We have now suspended our courses until June. Subject to further advice, from June onwards, all courses will be held outdoors to reduce contact and the chances of communication of the virus. In addition, we will also not now provide food and we ask participants to bring their own own; however, tea and coffee will still be provided in disposable cups. Go to our workshops page for more information on workshop content.
Memberships, affiliations & partnerships
Confirmed festivals for 2023 - come and see us!
Harlequin Fayre: 27-30th July
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
An eclectic mix of dance, music, art and performance in the heart of Norfolk
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
If you are into arts and crafts this is the festival for you!
Folk East: 18, 19, 20th August
Treehouse Festival: 14-20th August
Dance Camp East: 22nd - 30th July
If you’re in to folk music, come along to the premier event in East Anglia
Dance Camp East: 22nd - 30th July
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
Dance Camp East: 22nd - 30th July
A community-based camp in the heart of Suffolk offering you the chance to try something new. There’s workshops for everything from dance, music, art, craft greenwood working and much more...
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
A huge range of hand-crafted wares made by some of the best makers in the region.
https://www.facebook.com/blakeneyguild/
Strumpshaw Tree Festival: 15-16th July
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
Blakeney Guild of Many Crafts: 9th - 15th August
If you love nature, trees and wood with added music, song & dance, this is the place for you this summer!
Instagram.com STRUMPSHAWTREEFAIR
Weird & Wonderful Wood: 14-15th May
Bradfield Wood bowl carving workshops: 13th March & 16th Oct
Brecks public engagement days: 26-27 March & 9-10 April
If you love all things woody and the thrill of seeing artists in action, don’t miss this!
Brecks public engagement days: 26-27 March & 9-10 April
Bradfield Wood bowl carving workshops: 13th March & 16th Oct
Brecks public engagement days: 26-27 March & 9-10 April
Come along to the Stow Anglo-Saxon village & Country Park for a fun day out for all the family. See demonstrations of ancient crafts and much, much more!
Bradfield Wood bowl carving workshops: 13th March & 16th Oct
Bradfield Wood bowl carving workshops: 13th March & 16th Oct
Bradfield Wood bowl carving workshops: 13th March & 16th Oct
If you ever wanted to know how to carve a bowl, book yourself onto one of Bradfield’s courses that we’re running in March and October.
Stop press! Demonstration & Workshop dates
Would you like to find out how to make your own wooden spoon?
Our demonstrations and workshops continue to be very popular this year! Below are details of our craft fairs and dates for our next workshops.
Beginner’s spoon-carving and bowl-carving workshops 2022
Please check-out details of our courses on our CraftCourses profile: https://www.CraftCourses.com/providers/gosman-spoon-co
We will also be selling our wares and doing workshops with the Border Craft Collective:
Https://facebook.com/Border-Craft-Collective-343325085771146/
Featured products
Wedding spoons!
Christening spoons
Christmas spoons!
Spring is here and the sound of wedding bells has started ringing across the land! We are taking orders for bespoke wedding spoons:
Price: £20 + £5 postage and packing
Please note that th e pri ce for postage and packing includes pyrography decoration of your choice
Christmas spoons!
Christening spoons
Christmas spoons!
With the clocks going back we can all start to think of cosy nights in front of the fire and Christmas! Grab one of our new range of spoons as an unusual Christmas gift.
Large cooking spoons: £10 + £4.50 p&p
Small cooking spoons: £8 + £4.50 p&p
Eating spoons: £5 + £4.50 p&p
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS OFFER:
Set of 2 cooking (1 large + 1 small) plus 4 eating spoons: £25 + £5 p&p
Christening spoons
Christening spoons
Christening spoons
Your special gift to a special new arrival. Based on a centuries old tradition of giving a set of silver spoons one for each of the 12 apostles + 1 Mast er spoon, we offer a wooden alternative thats handmade with love. Buy one for the baby’s Apostle, a set of 4 for Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, or the whole set of 13!
Single spoon: £10 + £4.50 p&p
Set of 4: £30 + £5 p&p
Set of 13: £100 + £10 p&p
Please note that th e pri ce for postage and packing includes pyrography decoration of each spoon
Customer feedbacks
Traditional Nordic Kuksa cup
Christening spoons
"I watched Nick fashion a spoon before my very eyes and the skill, patience and attention to detail is admirable and inspiring!!! I love my spoon and certainly recommend this father/daughter duo xxxx fantastic work you guys!! xxxxx" Vikky
Bespoke wedding spoon: ‘Oh my!... It's gorgeous!’ Kate
Bespoke birthday spoon: ‘... I’m chuffed to bits with it. I think it’s so wonderful to have a special spoon to remember my birthday.... it’s a lovely thing ... I will treasure it for a very long time.’ Fiona
Bespoke birthday spoon: ‘Thank you so much for the beautiful hand carved wooden spoon with horse head decorations. It is so beautifully made and I love it. ‘ Chrissie
Beginner’s spoon carving workshop: ‘I had a great day with you and I’m rather proud of my first spoon!’ Sue
Beginner’s spoon carving workshop: I had a wonderful time on this course. Nick and Sophie were excellent tutors - really knowledgable but patient and relaxed with us beginners. I'm really proud of my spoon and the lunch was delicious! Thank you for a lovely day! - Helen
Beginner ’s spoon carving workshop : I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the course yesterday, thanks so much ! It was a really wonderful day, the company was fab and the food was delicious, and I will definitely be continuing to practice making spoons. - Alex"
I watched Nick fashion a spoon before my very eyes and the skill, patience and attention to detail is admirable and inspiring!!! I love my spoon and certainly recommend this father/daughter duo xxxx fantastic work you guys!! xxxxx"
Vikky
We had the best time carving a bowl and spoons with Nic. He was so patient and clear about the technicalities and safety side of things, but also allowed a wonderful shared workspace to develop where we could savour the task and the shape emerging from the wood - but also the gentle time and chat with each other in a beautiful setting. Will be a memory, and a bowl, we'll treasure for years! Thank you.
Beccy
Traditional Nordic Kuksa cup
Traditional Nordic Kuksa cup
Traditional Nordic Kuksa cup
Be cool and sustainable in the great outdoors or in your home and get one of our Kuksa cups with a traditional Lapland design. They’re the latest craze! At 11cm in diameter, the Kuksa is a multi-purpose eating and drinking vessel. Buy a Kuksa and an eating spoon together for just £20!
Kuksa: £15 + £5 postage and packing
Kuksa + eating spoon: £20 + £5 postage and pac
The Norfolk Spoon Carvers
A Father & Daughter team
The Gosman Spoon Co is a home-spun spoon carving company situated deep in the wilds of the Norfolk-Suffolk border-lands of Southern England. Father (Nick) and Daughter (Sophie) have brought together their creative talents to produce beautiful wooden spoons of every single type you can imagine. Sophie’s style is artistic and curiosity-led, whilst Nick‘s style is rustic and functional.
Our Ethos
Like all woodworkers we respect wild nature in all its forms. In keeping with our deep love of nature, we only use wood for spoon carving that has been professionally pruned from trees to help them grow better or use wood that trees have shed naturally.
Our Spoon-Making
To make our spoons, we use only the ancient woodcraft hand tools and skills passed down by generations of woodworkers; the axe, the draw-knife, the crook knife and the mallet. Each spoon starts life as a piece of wood that is lovingly crafted into a spoon in an ancient spoon carving process taking three or more hours.