Category: A&S 2026 Entries

Category: Replace weapons with jade and silkEntrant: Melissa WijffelsTitle: Garden Hoe The hoe – useful garden implement and favoured weapon of angry medieval mobs. This entry is a new handle for an ageing garden hoe (forged by Nathanael d’ Averanches). Carved from fruit wood using only hand tools.

Category: When the snipe and the clam grapple, it is the fisherman who profitsEntrant: Melissa WijffelsTitle: Slate ulu Amongst arctic cultures, the ulu is a common tool used to skin both fish and marine mammals, as well as as an all-purpose knife. In the Inuit culture, ulu are made from …