Da Banks Collection - Handmade Standing Lamps

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Standing Lights - Da Banks collection selection of 3
  • Standing Lights - Da Banks collection selection of 3
  • Standing Lights - Da Banks collection selection of 3
  • Standing Lights - Da Banks collection selection of 3

  • Da Banks Collection - Handmade Standing Lamps

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  • A bedtime story, the hoab, and why you need wild flowers to protect your head.
  • £89.00
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Inspiration for this design came one night when my daughter asked me to tell her a bedtime story. Earlier that day we had been down at da hoab (exposed seabed), which is one of my favourite places in Whalsay. I told her about how her Auld Da (my dad) used to take me there for walks when I was peerie (small), but in the summer we had to avoid the tirricks (arctic terns) nesting areas as they love to dive bomb your head. So Da used to take wild flowers, usually dockens or hogweed, and wave above his head for the diving tirricks to attack instead of trying to peck the top of his head.

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