Basket, gardening

This trug has an ash or chestnut rim with boards of willow nailed with copper nails. Trugs, widely used in gardening, are an unusual type of basket in that they are ‘assembled’ rather than woven, the pieces being nailed together. Nearly all trug baskets are made in Hertsmonceux, East Sussex. The making of trugs was revived in the first quarter of the nineteenth century by Thomas Smith, and this ba…