The Ash Archive. The Halpern Gallery, Chatham (2018). Photo: Elena Amoros
The Ash Archive. The Halpern Gallery, Chatham (2018). Photo: Elena Amoros
Ash is a favoured wood for tool handles due its straight grained and hard wearing. Europeans first started fixing tool handles to rudimentary tools in7000BC, they were called “hafts” or “helves “and it is argued that this invention is one of the factors that propelled our shift to a more settled form of agricultural practice.
