Waney Grain Artisan Woodworks

Who we are

We are Karen and Nick Titmus from Waney Grain Artisan Woodworks. We’re a pair of self-taught, passionate and enthusiastic artisan woodworkers/gilders, creating beautiful turnery in our Nottinghamshire home.

Christmas trees

On the Waney Grain lathe Nick creates the most beautiful and tactile Christmas trees in a vast selection of hardwoods, both native British and Exotic, all of which are responsibly sourced. Ranging from 2 inch to 10 inch and in a spectacular range of natural colours, our trees are perfect both clustered together as little forests or as single stand-alone ornaments, and make wonderful gifts.

Mushrooms, owls and acorns

Our little owls simply fly off our shelves! And our mushrooms and acorns are just as popular! We make free standing and hanging versions of all of our small turnery.

Fantasy Forest

Our stunning Fantasy Forest includes trees, mushrooms and acorns that have been painstakingly gilded with silver leaf, copper leaf and a range of delightful metals in beautiful colour mixes. Gild styles include geometric patchworks, organic mosaic patterns and blended colourworks

Snowmen

We craft unique and charming snowmen from a range of world woods. From the sleek black elegance of Indian Ebony and the eccentric purple quirkiness of Purpleheart to the familiar tones of English oak, elm and maple. The spectacular grain creates imaginative features, and the handfeel of these wonderful woods is a delight.

Coasters, sommeliers, candles, tealight holders and othersuch

We create wooden coasters to hold a single bottle, and sommeliers that incorporates a coaster with a surrounding ‘food moat’. This is a very stylish way of serving drinks and nibbles, and the coaster aperture fits most standard bottles. Our wooden candles are unusual decorative objets d’art, and are available in a variety of woods. Our ‘Light in the Dark’ candles have gilded flames.

We warmly welcome commissions for unique collections.