{"id":6954,"date":"2022-01-09T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T16:30:12","slug":"fishy-tales-or-tails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/09\/fishy-tales-or-tails\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishy Tales (or Tails?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When I received this photo from a client showing a fairly uninspiring thin sycamore stump, I realised it would take some thought in figuring out a design; all I could visualise was something flowing vertically…water? Fish? But the location (Cherry Willingham, near Lincoln) is very much land-locked, so fish wouldn’t have much relevance…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked into the history of Cherry Willingham, and ~ lo and behold ~ there had been a medieval fish pond attached to a Manor House (still there in one form or another, but built in 1086), and putting the suggestion to the client, it turned out she was the daughter of a third-generation fish merchant and loved the theme. Furthermore, midway through the carving a villager approached and unwrapped several small sea-life fossils that had been found in an adjacent field: it really seemed as though a fish design was meant to be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I received this photo from a client showing a fairly uninspiring thin sycamore stump, I realised it would take some thought in figuring out a design; all I could visualise was something flowing vertically…water? Fish? But the location (Cherry Willingham, near Lincoln) is very much land-locked, so fish wouldn’t have much relevance… I looked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6968,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}