Hand forged, and made to outlast us all
Memorial trees, personalised copper leaves and keepsakes, drawn, cut, hammered and finished by hand. No two are the same, because no two hands are.
See the treesThree things, made properly
Everything is worked by hand at the mill. What arrives is what you were shown.
Trees of Life
A tree that grows. Families add a leaf when they are ready, and the tree fills over the years rather than being finished on the day it arrives.
Memorial Leaves
A name cut into solid copper, set out to fit the leaf so it is right the first time. Each one is finished by hand.
Keepsakes and Keyrings
Copper and pewter acorns, leaves and small pieces. Something to keep in a pocket, and something a fundraiser can sell.
A tree that fills over the years
From a small tree for a mantelpiece to a full height sculpture standing outside a hospital. A family adds a leaf when they are ready, not before.
Royal Oak
The largest of the table trees
Heritage Oak
Full and wide, for a hall or a foyerForest Oak
The one most families choose
Sapling
Small enough for a shelf at homeOne workshop, a lot of doors
The same hands make all of it. What changes is who it is for, and what they need from it.
Hospices and Hospitals
A tree of remembrance for your building, and a way for families to add a name themselves without going through your fundraising team.
For hospices and hospitals →Organisations and Trade
Stonemasons, heritage venues, jewellers and gift shops. Trade pricing, blanks in volume, and we can work to your drawing.
Trade and wholesale →Weddings and Celebrations
A tree as a guest book, a keepsake for the top table, and gifts that are not thrown away in a fortnight.
For weddings →Schools
Legacy walls, leavers trees and anniversary pieces. A school can keep adding to the same piece year after year.
For schools →The forge came first
FORJD began at the fire, not at a commission. Everything since has come out of that, and the trees are what the craft grew into.
We join the newest technology to the oldest techniques. A piece is drawn, cut, hammered and finished by hand, and the marks of that are left where you can see them.
More about the craft
Standing where it was meant to stand
Real work, installed. Hospitals, hospices and public spaces across the north west.
BabyBeat, Royal Blackburn Hospital
A full height copper tree standing outside the unit, with leaves added by families.
Willowbrook Hospice
Installed in the grounds, filling as names are added.
Your families can order a leaf themselves
Log in, type the name, and see the leaf exactly as it will be cut before anything is ordered. If a name will not fit you find out at the time, not three weeks later. There is no charge to your organisation for any of it.
Log in to order leaves