Take an ordinary metal galvanized bucket – and streeetch it tall and thin – and you’ve got yourself a French bucket.
Like the French people, French buckets are “artsier” than a standard utilitarian american bucket.
French Buckets
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Bird House
We’ve already covered houses for Chickens made from 5 gallon buckets on this site, but what if your favorite feathered creatures are smaller and capable of flight?
Then lucky for you that Mimi from Blue Roof Cabin has put together this 8-unit bird condo and published her entire building process.
Ivory Buckets
These are the rarest of all the bucket species. Very few ivory buckets remain in the world, and each one is a priceless relic.
These buckets were each carved from a single elephant tusk by a highly skilled ivory craftsman. The only remaining four examples are all from the 10th century, commissioned by the Catholic church for their cathedrals.
Ivory buckets were too precious to be used for ordinary worship services of course! These fanciest of fancy buckets were only used during certain special ceremonies, and only to hold the most special of waters – holy water.
Wooden Buckets
Until recently, bucket making was a very important profession. Every town had bucket makers, or “Cooper.” This noble profession has mostly diminished into obscurity, but examples of the Cooper’s workshop are still immortalized in museums.
Fashion Accessory: The Bucket Bag
At some point in the last year, fashionable women started carrying buckets around. Not your traditional all purpose 5 gallon white bucket, but a leather version called a “bucket bag.” Continue reading