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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Sycamore butter print from Llanhari, south Wales. Central acorn motif flanked with two small acorns with oak leaves within a punched border. Round butted handle.
Butter prints were used to stamp butter ready for the market. The craft of carving the prints was common to many countries, but canoe-shaped prints are unique to Wales. The most popular designs were hearts, geometrical shapes, and patterns of lines spreading out from the centre of a circle. From about 1850 to 1900, roses, strawberries, cows, acorns, and pineapples were fashionable designs.
Defnyddiwyd printiau menyn i roi stamp ar fenyn yn barod ar gyfer y farchnad. Roedd y grefft o gerfio printiau yn boblogaidd mewn llawer o wledydd, ond mae printiau siâp cwch yn unigryw i Gymru. Calonnau, siapiau geometrig a llinellau’n lledaenu o ganol cylch oedd y mwyaf poblogaidd. Rhwng tua 1850 a 1900, roedd rhosod, mefus, gwartheg, mês ac afalau pîn yn batrymau ffasiynol.
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