Gift packs, with 10g local sea salt by OK Sea Salt and a hand made wooden spoon!

These salt pigs are made from a mid-range semi-porcelain that is food safe even when unglazed. The tilted shape creates a passive air current, keeping your salt from soaking up moisture in our wackohumid environment, and also acts as a little lid to keep crumbs, etc. out.

The found materials I use are collected in very small amounts and are generally/especially found through ‘waste’ or discard pathways. I like to collect the evidences or traces of what has happened or what’s been left behind (by an animal, by machines, by feet, by weather). 

The inclusions on these salt pigs are:

Wild clay from a meadow outside Windsor

Sand from Inverness County

Jewelry desk dust from Sorrel (Halifax)

Glass from an eroding hillside in Old Town Lunenburg

The openings are comfortable enough for a four finger pinch at around 6.5cm wide.

*The term salt “pig" supposedly comes from the old Scottish word for pot!