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Thuya BurlEssaouiraSKU RW-H
4 of this size exist.Each has its own grain — the one you receive is the one you own.
A thuya burl box under a lid built from rows of small raised squares, each one set by hand, so the grain shifts from block to block as the light moves. Four in this batch.
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A thuya tree spends decades putting down a root far larger than the trunk above it. Stress, drought and injury make that root grow in knots and whorls instead of straight grain — which is the whole reason burl is prized, and the reason it cannot be farmed to order.
Essaouira has worked this wood for four centuries. What you're looking at is one afternoon of that, on one piece of root that grew exactly once.
An eight-sided thuya burl box under an inlaid lid, in two sizes. No two lids are worked alike — brass wire drawn into spirals around mother-of-pearl, a field of pale dots, a blue-and-white rosette. Six in this batch.
2 available · 8 cm
A rectangular thuya burl box whose lid carries a pierced arabesque panel, cut through by hand and framed by two fine inlaid lines. The most labour-intensive piece in the batch, and there are three.
3 available · 18 cm
A narrow thuya burl case with a sliding lid, sized to hold dice in a row. The smallest piece in the batch at $20, and the easiest way to try the wood. Five in this batch.
5 available · 6 cm