#skeps

[lav-gooms]

#SKEPS @skep_lifers

[gazophylacium]

Eight cloomed wicker skeps. "These were made in March 2009 for a film company who wanted them for the Robin Hood movie. In the film Friar Tuck (the beekeeper) throws skeps of bees into a building where people are hiding. That's why they had to have handles.  Getting all that cow dung dry in cool damp weather was a problem."

This is from a terrific site on skep-making: http://www.martinatnewton.com/page2.htm

And here, at The Natural Bee-Keeping Forum, is another really good, thorough & detailed demonstration on skep-making: http://www.biobees.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13249

[pinehousepress]

for the bees