Crinolined Tree and Silva Tree are linked:

Crinolined Tree

We made this tree first – it was to be the armature or perhaps, a crinoline, for a silver branched cypress tree but, in its uncovered state, it seemed complete in itself and so we left it as it was.

The handle is from a set of twelve 19th-century German ceramic knives and forks.

Silva Tree

Here the armature is covered with silver branches, as I originally envisaged. I particularly like the way some of them "stick out" just like they do on real cypress trees.

The handle is green agate and there is a ribbon of gold wrapped around the bezel.

The title is a play on words.

View Treehandles for details about the other Treehandles shown here.