Elm Storywood Triangle

You can read a lot into the grain of a piece of wood. Layered on year by year, we are treated to a detailed record of when branches began to grow, how the sun shone and rain fell, what hardships the tree encountered, and how long it lived. This limited run of smaller elm storywood pieces has been produced as an accessible alternative to our larger cubes (available in elm, cherry, douglas-fir and other species).

Each piece of Storywood has been meticulously prepared: cut to length, handplaned and sanded to a high grit. They are objects to touch, ogle and engage with over time.

PIECE NOTES: Salvaged from a barn that stood in the Rouge River drainage basin, the Elm Storywood have the most annual rings of any wood in our current collection. Beginning in the 1940s, Dutch elm disease killed or caused the preemptive felling of almost all of Ontario's mature stems. Efforts are ongoing to restock this population, but elm of this age and slow growth will be unavailable commercially for generations, making these tightly ringed hardwood pieces particularly significant.

RING COUNT: est. 300 years of growth

DIMENSIONS: est. 150 x 110 x 30 mm (each piece varies slightly)