Brief Summary…
- Moon Gazing Hare – Recycled vintage dessert spoon
- Two brooches Hare & Moon from same spoon
- Hand cut from the spoon with traditional jewellers piercing saw.
- Presented with donor spoon.
- Optional inscription message on spoon handle
- Classic safety locking catch on back.
- Strong pin which can be used for winter coats or dress wear
- Size : 42mm hare | 20mm Moon
- Symbolism : intuition, curiosity, adventure, lovingness, wonderlust, luck, vigilance, and adaptability
- Handcrafted & Recycled in Cambridge
- made carefully with Love
A little more detail…
The hare often embodies fertility, rebirth, and transformation, drawing upon ancient associations with spring, the moon, and love. It can also represent intuition, vigilance, and adaptability, as well as themes of mortality and luck. The hare’s elusive nature and swiftness contribute to its symbolic complexity, often appearing in contexts of both danger and magic.
Fertility and Rebirth:The hare’s prolific breeding and connection to spring have long linked it to fertility and renewal. In some traditions, hares are associated with goddesses of love and fertility like Aphrodite and Venus. Their ability to seemingly give birth without impregnation (due to superfetation) also contributed to this symbolism.
Transformation and Change:Like the changing seasons, the hare’s seasonal shedding of its coat and its swift movements symbolize transformation and adaptability. It can represent a call to embrace change and navigate life’s complexities with agility.
Vigilance and Intuition:Hares are known for their alertness and keen senses, making them symbols of intuition and awareness. They can represent the need to be perceptive and responsive to one’s surroundings.
Trickster and Magic:In folklore, hares can be tricksters, embodying cleverness and cunning. They are also associated with magic and mystery, often appearing in tales of shapeshifting and divination.
Moon and Lunar Cycles:Hares are often linked to the moon, particularly in East Asian cultures where the moon goddess is depicted with a hare. This connection further emphasizes themes of cyclical change and renewal.
Ancient Greece and Rome: Associated with love, fertility, and sacrifice to gods of love.
China and Japan: Linked to the moon goddess and immortality.
Germanic traditions: Connected to the goddess Eostre, the inspiration for Easter.
Paganism: Represents fertility, rebirth, and transformation, with hares appearing in various rituals and myths
Christianity: Symbol of resurrection and new life, often associated with Easter.
An old, unwanted vintage EPNS dessert spoon transformed using traditional hand tools and a passion for green principles and ethics. Each hare is carefully outlined on the surface of the spoon. This is slowly and meticulously followed with a traditional jewellers piercing saw. The final shape is filed and polished to perfection. An old spoon recycled into a gorgeous pair of wearable brooches
An integral and interesting part of the brooch is the antique dessert spoon from which it was cut. This simple ‘donor’ spoon is also given a little ‘Hairy Growler’ treatment. It is transformed in to an wonderful Objects D’ Art which acts a lovely resting place for the brooch when not being worn. Both are presented in a lovely box.
Each one of these beautifully crafted moon gazing hare brooches is handmade, totally green, completely ethical, 100 % recycled and utterly unique.
Handmade and recycled in Cambridge.
Size : Hare approx 42 mm * 36 mm | Moon 20mm
Alison –
Amazing
I’ve bought this as a gift for one of my Bridesmaids and I don’t want to give it to her! I want it & I’m not a broach person!!
This is beautiful; my fiancé and I both just sit and look at it in utter awe.
Piers (verified owner) –
True craftsman
From the detail on the packaging to the design and implementation this is top quality. The moon gazing hare is enchanting and the reverse space in the spoon looks great on my wife’s desk. She loved it, thank you.
domaces (verified owner) –
Loved it thanks so much ita such lovely honest craftsmanship that you can’t help bur be enchanted by it.
Richard –
A perfect birthday present for my partner.
I wanted a special present for my partner, Pam for her birthday before we get married later this summer. We both knew the tradition of lovespoons and Pam had teasingly hinted that I should make one for her. Now my tiny, intricate crafting skills are nowhere up to the job, I’m much better with bigger projects!
I remembered that the Hairy Growler made jewellery from recycled spoons and as we both revere hares as wonderful, mystical creatures; the Moongazing Hare brooch, made from a recycled silver spoon was perfect as a token of my love. It will be proudly worn as part of her wedding regalia too.
Many thanks, Mr. H.G. you are a master craftsman. Richard