ABOUT ME
Dan Tarrant
Hi, I am Dan, the man behind the idea.
I have been making things using wood for over a decade. Houses, guitars, furniture, toys and now the items you see on this website. I like to make things that have a practical use and will last long enough to be shared for generations.
I am passionate about form and the end product being ‘right’ before it leaves my workshop. While I love efficiency I also believe strongly in the ‘handmade’ principal. everything you see for sale on here, in shops I supply or at a market has been shaped by human hand or tools guided by them.
After an earlier career as an Archaeologist, I also have a deep love for history and humanity’s past as told by objects. Many of the designs for the pieces I make are based on ones from history.
In 2024 I was fortunate to be accepted onto the Register of Professional Turners and been approved as a woodturning tutor by the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain .
Tarrant’s exists because of the ‘trencher’ plate. A design born out of functional necessity to hold food and seasoning on one vessel. One that is almost lost only to history books or collectors. We felt the need to retell it’s story and give it new life. This opened the window into hand crafted table and kitchenware. introducing to us pieces that are evocative of our recent and distant past. The breadboard design is straight from our (and many of our customer’s) Grandmother’s kitchen. Simple, effective but no longer produced on a mass scale. Rich with memories and deserving of being kept alive.
Each piece you hold has a direct link back through history to almost identical pieces your ancestors used. The tactile nature of the wood, the way the food looks and how much quieter it is to eat off are all good reasons to use a wooden plate or bowl. But the reminder of that link and the passing of that story as they are passed on to future generations is a pretty good one too.
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