Emails and Trade Enquiries please to lychgate@OtherWayUp.com
All artefacts, (except where specifically stated), are hand crafted by myself in my workshop in rural Shropshire. Orders are shipped from Bridgnorth or Leicester.
What are Lychgate Charms?
There is currently a collection of 24 Lychgate pendant amulets/charms available, (all available now on Etsy at lychgatecharms), each of traditional design taken from an original historic source. All Lychgate artefacts will be available from this shop, here, when new photos have been prepared.
More traditional amulets are being crafted and will be added to the collection as they are made available.
These are authentic, traditional amulets, hand crafted the old fashioned way in my rural workshop in Shropshire, England. They are hand cast in pewter, trimmed and then given a vintage-look oxide patina before being tumbled and finished with a light hand polish and a protective coating of clear lacquer. Accented with a coppered jump ring and a bronze-tone metal bead, it comes on an adjustable, up to 22” (56cm) long, black, round leather cord with a pewter T-bar & ring clasp; this is a generous overall pendant length, but is easily shortened to as little as a choker with its unique, vintage-style adjustable toggle fastener.
Pewter, my preferred metal, was introduced into Britain by the Romans, but is more especially associated with the Medieval, Tudor and through to Victorian times. It was used by the wealthy for domestic items such as candle sticks, plates, spoons and drinking vessels, etc, but also for decorative pieces such as jewellery, accessories and fittings. In earlier times pewter was an alloy of tin and lead, however, lead has now been replaced by small amounts of the safe bismuth and copper. The pewter that I use for Lychgate Charms is modern English pewter; a high quality, lead-free, 92% tin alloy.
Lychgate is one of the projects under the workshop name of OtherWayUp, and the owner, designer and craftsman of OtherWayUp is myself, Geoff Kayson.
I am a carpenter and a model maker from Manchester, and in 1977 I co-founded Alchemy Gothic England, designers and makers of cast pewter jewellery and giftware. OtherWayUp is my personal creative side-project. I design and craft everything by hand in my self-built workshop in Shropshire.
Trade enquiries please: USA matt@alchemyofengland.com | Europe & Rest of the World lychgate@OtherWayUp.com
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