Reclaimed Wood iPad Easel
Peg and Awl
We are husband and wife with a boy called Søren and a boy called Silas. We have 2 chickens and 1 cat. We live and work in Philadelphia, Penna.
Our work is made from olde things, treasures found and recovered from misfortune and neglect, relics of the unusual, the confused and the macabre, cut and pulled and bound into wearable curiosities, inscribable keepsakes and useable treasures. .We used to make them for ourselves and now we make them for everyone.
In late 2012, we moved our shoppe from our home into the olde Atlas Casket Company building in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. Our team is ever-growing.
To make our wares, we gather materials from flea markets and old shoppes, abandoned houses and torn-down buildings, construction sites, yard sales, and dirty basements. Most of what we use—leather from baseball gloves and drawing-room chairs, and WWII gun slings, pages from outdated medical texts and antique seed catalogs, misplaced photographs of people long dead, fabric from bedding, aprons, window covering—is more than a century old. Every item bears marks of a not-fully-known and not-quite-finished past.
We use wood from old-growth trees, which lived for many, many years packed in dense North American forests surrounded by other trees—the denser the forest, the slower the growth, the tighter the grain. The trees were cut down sometime in the early to mid 1800s and turned into homes – homes that, in many cases existed during the Civil War, The Industrial Revolution, The Jazz Age, WWI, The Carolina Tarheels recording Peg and Awl, The Depression Era, WWII, The Space age and were probably beginning to feel heavy from neglect by the time Leonard Cohen began writing Favourite Game. After decades of dereliction, the piles that were once homes to many, and now eyesores to most are treasures to us. We scoop up the forlorn bits and once again offer them a new life. The wood, newly cut, with each ring tightly stacked upon the next, betrays its more recent past life, now riddled with ebonized nail holes or burrowed trails to carpenter bees and other insects’ long abandoned homes.
Giveaway – Reclaimed Wood iPad Easel ($60 Retail Value)
This giveaway is for a Reclaimed Oak (primarily from 1800s) iPad easel. Simple and wonderfully useful for the kitchen, office, and bedroom. The easel transforms from wall mount to desktop base. The peg holds the base in place when in the wall mount but also serves as a pivot point for turning the iPad to face you depending upon your location in the room.
So go ahead and enter! Then jump over to Peg and Awl’s Etsy Shop and take a look at all their beautiful pieces!
These are beautiful!
So neat to see appreciation and value in old things plus recycling – bonus!
Love your work!
I love a rustic vintage look.
Very cool!
Love the creative I pad holder.
Love that it’s made from reclaimed wood.
It is amazing the vision and insight they must have when they walk into a building with wood to reclaim or see a piece on auction. I can imagine the great sculptors of the past having similar visual images as they first saw a piece of stone.
Love the reclaimed wood look, awesome job!
I Love love love the vintage look..in all things. I am so happy to have found this site, I appreciate the hand made items so much more than store bought.
They look absolutely gorgeous, I’d love to have one!!
Love Love your work and your Etsy Shop! I also love your Pinterest Board. I hope you don’t mind that I stole some of your pins.
It really is stunning! <3
Love your ideas and items! Beautiful! Glad you’re able to do something with all these old items.
Very interesting piece.
Lovely!
I love the idea of having something that has a past, a history unknown to me … Where has this object been, what has it witnessed, why did it get discarded? Ooh, the mystery and mystique
Upcycling is the new black.
What amazing work. Awesome to find a use for reclaimed wood.
This is a beautiful piece and I could really use it. I use my tablet in the kitchen all the time!
something old is always better
These are AWESOME pieces!! I am in love!! Thank you for the chance to win!!
I love the beauty of the wood and repurposing! Thank you!
Love their work!
Love this reclaimed wood!
So amazing, love the textures