How showing love by a spoon became a Welsh symbol
"By the 17th Century, the romantic element of it definitely took off and from that earliest love spoon we've got carvings of hearts, carvings with initials of people, so we know that that spoon was given as a romantic gift."We can only speculate about what those symbols stand for, and obviously those symbols would have had different meanings for different people.
Ceini's story initially harks back to the origin story of the spoon as a personally made token of love but with a different twist to the usual romantic offering from a man to a woman. "So as a thank-you for the three years she supported me throughout university, I decided I'd carve her a love spoon. "But within the love spoon world I know many other carvers and they are just excited and like, yes, the tradition is carrying on with a young, female artist."Ceini has tried to stay true to the traditions of the spoon - she only uses one knife and one gouge, or carving chisel, to make each spoon - but has also brought modern techniques into her products, for example using epoxy resin to incorporate dried flowers within the design.
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