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‘The Sussex Trug is a thing of beauty, perfectly embodying its birthplace, combining willow from the marsh, chestnut from the forest, and the intelligence and skill of the craft workers who make them.’
Ray Mears, 2018
For over a century, The Truggery has handcrafted Sussex Trugs from chestnut and willow, preserving traditional skills of Sussex crafts used to create baskets as practical today as centuries ago.
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Queen Victoria personally purchased a Sussex trug from the Great Exhibition, catapulting that county’s garden baskets into the cultural zeitgeist. However, thanks to a rapidly changing agricultural landscape, the craft is now critically endangered, with only a few traditional makers still practising. One of them helps us through the hoops of its history
