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Crafts CouncilDirectoryLisa Slater Automata

Blue Tits on Milk Bottles

Nostalgia of this lost activity recreated in automata form. Lathed milked bottles in sycamore wood with hand carved and painted blue tits on top that peck the silver leaf lids when the handle is turned.

Lisa Slater Automata

Hebden Bridge, England

Collection of milk bottles with pecking blue tits, me
Blue Tit Automata, me
Pecking Blue Tits, me

two automata of tits on wooden milk bottles

Blue Tit, me

close up of carved bird

Blue Tits on Milk Bottles

Nostalgia of this lost activity recreated in automata form. Lathed milked bottles in sycamore wood with hand carved and painted blue tits on top that peck the silver leaf lids when the handle is turned.

Lisa Slater Automata

Hebden Bridge, England

Collection of milk bottles with pecking blue tits, me
Pecking Blue Tits, me

two automata of tits on wooden milk bottles

Blue Tit Automata, me
Blue Tit, me

close up of carved bird

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