I have hand carved this spoon from plum obtained from my partner's family garden. It's a very nice, yet very knotty wood. The pattern has been done by a traditional method of kolrosing, which involved cutting the pattern into the wood with a fine blade and then rubbing a colouring powder into the cuts: in this case a mix of cinnamon and ground coffee has been used, but ash, paprika and other things can be used too.
