The Briar Rose

Take a look at any old English woodland and you will see a profusion of one thing..ivy.

Deep green leaves,coiling twisting stems,binding one tree to another and forming an impassable barrier about the woodland.A curtain to screen the secrets of the forest.

Ivy is a prolific plant..it spreads from tree to tree ,climbing from branch to branch or creeping along the forest floor.It is never still,always growing always moving.It's movement might be imperceptable to the naked eye..but the mind's eye reveals something else..a constant serpentine coiling and twisting,a perpetual sensuous moving just beyond the periphial vision.

 

The Ivy Lads and Lasses are the perpetual force of growth..and life,the power of the Goddess made manifest.

A feminine wood,a graceful, sensuous wood..a wood of undulating curves and loving caresses..and one might think where is the masculine in all this ?

Yet try to sepeate this plant from it's host,try to penetrate it's lucious depths and you will find a strength that belies it's graceful appearance..and you might look again..and see that the whole woodland is disappearing beneath the caresses of the ivy.

A relentless force..a tremendously powerful force,one that binds and holds and keeps together..and one that will,eventually join tree to tree,bush to bush in an inescapable embrace.Venture beneath this curtain of leaves and twisted stems and you enter another wold..a secret world..of shadows and shaded,filtered sunlight,vivid greens ,the deepest emerald and glistening black berries that shine like a myriad of watching eyes..And beneath it all the earth is alive with life..unseen roots run beneath your feet and great trunks silently twist in on themselves like the coiling of a great serpent.

Time is immaterial to the Ivy,time ceases to exist..all there is is movement,growth,the binding of things together.It is very easy to be seduced by Ivy..a sensual overload,you might say.It's easy to imagine ethereal hands drawing you beneath the curtian of vivid green,into the company of the Ivy Lads and Lasses.

Ivy is a power wood..a wood of primal power,a tenacious wood,a force that cannot be stopped,cannot be contained,one that will grow and flow with relentless determination.

A Goddess wood,yet a wood that is very much misunderstood..this is no benign,gentle power..but the hand of the Earth Mother upon you.Life,growth,relentless progression..and the binding of things together.

Below is a selection of English Ivy Wood wands..beautiful sensuous wands,chosen for their provocative curves and their serpentine power.

Wands perhaps for those who are connected to the earth energy at the primal base..the base chakra or hvel..for those who feet tingle when they walk over the land..for those whose blood seethes with the spiraling natural energy.

Perhaps these are not wands and this is not  a page for the easily offended,the totally practical,those devoid of sensual awareness.Perhaps these are wands and this is a page for lovers and poets,for artists and dancers.. for those that would create and keep on creating..and for those to whom the natural world is a total sensory experience.

 

 

Ivy Queen 1

A beautiful strong yet compact piece,sensually wavered and deeply marked where the wood was attached to the tree..

A really beautiful piece measuring 42cms in length and just over 5.5 cms in circumference.

 

Ivy Queen 1  £18.99 

 

 

 

Ivy Queen 2

Lovely undulating wood,less deeply marked and very beautiful

This piece measures 44cms in length and 5cms in circumference.

Ivy Queen 2  £14.99 

 

 

 

 

Ivy queen 3

Wonderfully twisted wood,a finer piece measuring 42cms in length excluding twists and juts over 4cms in circumference.

 

Ivy Queen 3  £16.00

 

 

Ivy queen 4

A powerful piece,old wood,more undulating than twisted..deeply marked and measuring 49cms in length and 5cms in circumference.

 

Ivy queen 4  £18.00 

 

 

Ivy Queen 5

 

 

Wonderfully twisted,spiralling wood.

 

A lovely piece measuring 45cms in length and just over 4cms in circumference.

Ivy Queen 5  £16.00 

 

 

 

 

 

Ivy queen 6

An unusally coloured wood,yet totally natural.

This wand is darker in shade,a beautiful golden brown olour and gently undulating.

Old wood,deeply grained and marked and measuring 42 cms in length by 4cms in circumference

 

Ivy Queen 6  £16.00 

 

 

Goddess

Beautiful,very powerful strong wand..deeply grained and gently wavered.

This is a formidable piece measuring 42cms in length and 6cms in circumference.

beautiful patterning along one side..a real treasur.

 

Goddess £18.00 

 

Ivy wand 2

 

Pretty fine ivy wand measuring 47cms by 4cms in circumference.

 

Ivy wand 2  £14.99 

Ivy queen

 

 SOLD

 

Ivy Maid

 

SOLD

 

English Ivy 2

A lovely piece,with very pretty markings and gentle,sensuous curves.

This piece measures 45cms by 4.5 cms in circumference

 

English Ivy no 2  £16.00 

SOLD

 

The Crone

 

SOLD

 

Ivy Queen Wall charm

Wonderful ivy wood wall charm.

Naturally forked and wavered old ivy wood..a good strong and extremeley powerful charm..designed for the protection of your household..and the binding together of it's members.

This is connecting wood,that is the ivy that grows between trees,connecting one to the other..as opposed to the ivy that grows up the tree ostelf.Consequently it is a smoother wood,without the deeep markings common to bonding wood.

a very beautiful piece measuring 36cms in length with a 10cms spread between the forks.

 

Ivy Queen Wall Charm  £18.99 

 

 

English Ivy Oil

The Ivy Lads and Lasses in fluid form...

Handcrafted traditional infused oil made form the leaves.

30ml amber glass bottle  £3.25