Blót Offering Spoon

There is something different about having a tool that belongs only to the work.
 
This began with a simple wooden spoon, the kind of ordinary object that could easily have remained ordinary. I sanded away the rough factory finish, worked the wood with flame until the grain began to show itself, burned ᛒᛚᚢᛏ into the bowl, added my maker’s mark, and finished the wood with beeswax.
 
Then I wrapped it in the cloth I had worked it in, and that was the moment the whole thing made sense.
 
The word blót belongs to the Old Norse vocabulary of sacrifice and offering. The runes burned into the spoon are its Younger Futhark rendering. I am not presenting this as a reconstruction of a specific archaeological ritual spoon, because we do not have evidence for that. What I am making is a modern working tool placed carefully inside a historically attested practice.
 
An offering spoon gives you a dedicated implement for moving what is being given. Grain, herbs, salt, earth, food, liquid, or whatever belongs to the particular rite can be carried from hand or vessel to the place of offering without turning one of your everyday kitchen utensils into an altar tool.
 
There is also something I like about keeping it wrapped between uses. You unwrap it when there is work to be done, use it, clean it, and put it away again. Nothing complicated needs to be invented around that. The simple act of keeping certain objects for certain work has meaning of its own.
Each spoon is individually sanded, flame-worked, hand-burned, beeswax finished, and maker marked. The coloring and grain will vary because the fire does not make the same spoon twice.
Includes the hand-worked wrap and tie shown with the spoon.
 
For ritual and altar use.