Christmas-Ebbot tray

Here you have Jul-Ebbot. The illustration is part of a large series of people and characters that I have produced in collaboration with Spira of Sweden.

"When the ice settles on the lake, sailor Ebbot immediately gets into the Christmas spirit. It's usually around mid-November. Then he puts his rubber boots and skipper's jacket in the storage room, combs his beard nicely and dresses the fish stall in colorful Christmas lights so the whole village lights up. Then he spends the days before Christmas making his own herring, curing salmon and baking wort bread using a secret recipe. Making chocolate-dipped marzipan fish together with his giggly grandchildren. Drinking mint-flavored mulled wine and looking longingly out at the moonlight over the crispy ice. According to tradition, every year he trades a pot of fish balls for a freshly knitted Christmas sweater with his neighbor's aunt at the baptism parade. And when he goes out on Christmas Eve morning with his pipe in the snowstorm to buy the newspaper. Dressed in winter-lined boots, warm underwear and a long coat. Then his frostbitten beard usually turns wonderfully white."

The tray is 31 cm in diameter and consists of several layers of birch veneer that are assembled by hand. Handmade in Sweden, water-resistant and dishwasher safe.