Pyrography Wooden Spoon, Moon Spoon Dark, One of a Kind, Hand-Burned, Handmade England

This one is the dark version of Moon Spoon Light. Same spoon, updated and improved design, but with the lights switched off.

Dani burned the whole back of the bowl, edge to edge, and left the crescent moon as bare wood. So instead of a pale bowl back with a moon burned into it, you get a night sky with the moon cut out of it. The vines below the moon are left bare too, curling down the handle like smoke off a snuffed candle.

The handle carries an updated, improved pattern from the original Moon Spoon Light. Vines, flower heads and curling tendrils wind around the wood against a burned brown background. It shifts as it travels down, so no stretch of it quite repeats, and it wraps all the way round before finishing in a spiral at the very tip.

This is pyrography, burning straight into beech wood with a heat pen. Getting a bowl that dark and that even takes a long time. The tone is built up gradually, a layer at a time, and the curve of the bowl doesn't make it any easier. Rush one patch and it shows, and there's no rubbing out a burn. The hardest part is the edge of the moon, where the dark has to come right up to the line and stop.

The moon is the only light in the bowl, and that's where the name comes from.

It holds its own next to anything: a witchy kitchen aesthetic, a farmhouse worktop, a shelf of ceramics and odd beautiful things. It also stirs soup perfectly well, which feels like a bonus at this point.

Hand made in Dani's studio in Hampshire. Sold as the single, unrepeatable object it is.

As each spoon is hand made, there is exactly one of these in the world, each spoon is special and unique, even if the Dinni Doll pattern is the same. Once it's gone, it's gone.

Item Details

Length: 30cm / 12"
Material: Beech wood
Technique: Pyrography (hand-burned)
Made in Hampshire, England
Quantity: One of a kind, only 1 available

Care Instructions

These spoons have been coated in several layers of (organic food-safe oil) and to keep it as perfect as possible, you may want to repeat this process if the wood starts looking dry. (The same way as recommended to keep wooden chopping boards in the best condition.)

Please wash your spoon in soapy warm water by hand, but do not allow it to soak for a long time as this could warp the wood. We also recommend not keeping the spoon resting in a hot pot or pan whilst cooking as this could darken the wood on the end which could affect the look of the design.

Happy Cooking!

About The Artist

Dani works from a studio in Hampshire, across pyrography, oil painting, sculpture, textiles, and digital art. The common thread isn't a style or a material, it's a way of thinking. She starts with what she wants to say and works backwards to figure out what it should be made from. That approach keeps the work from ever sitting still, and it's why something like this spoon ends up feeling like a complete idea rather than a decorated object.