CARVED CATS AND CAT STOOLS

Click on cat image to enlarge. We also have a second gallery of carved Cats.

Carved wooden cats
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Carved cat box Ł12 + Ł2.50 P+P code CT101	Pair of carved cats Ł12 + Ł3 P+P or Ł6 + Ł2 P+P each code CT102	Cat family Ł20 + Ł3 P+P code CT103
Carved wooden cat Ł14 + Ł2.50 P+P code CT104	Carved cat on books Ł8 + Ł2 P+P code CT105	Carved fat cat Ł16 + Ł3.95 P+P code CT106
Carved cats Ł16 + Ł2.50 P+P code CT107	Carved cat Ł12 + Ł2.50 P+P code CT108	Wooden cat Ł16 + Ł3 P+P code CT109
Sitting carved cat 8" tall Ł12+ Ł2.50 p+p code CT110	Lazy kitty Ł9 + Ł2 P+P code CT111	Wooden carved cat Ł7 + Ł2 P+P code CT112
Carved wooden cat Ł24 + Ł4.95 P+P code CT113	Carved handstanding cat Ł14 + Ł2 P+P code CT114	Hand carved cat Ł16 + Ł3 P+P code CT115
Ł5 + Ł1.50 P+P code CT116	Carved cat rocker Ł12 + Ł2.50 P+P code CT117	Carved walking cat Ł12 + Ł2 P+P code CT118
Ł5 + Ł1.50 P+P code CT119	Carved rocking cat Ł16 + Ł3 P+P code CT120	Carved sitting cat Ł22 + Ł5 P+P code CT121
Small carved cat Ł2.50 + Ł0.70 P+P code CT122	Wooden cat Ł8 + Ł2 P+P code CT123	Carved Egyptian cat Ł10 + Ł2 P+P code CT124
Long neck cat 30" Ł50 + Ł8 P+P code CT125	Carved cat Ł8 + Ł2 P+P code CT126	12" Ł12 + Ł3 15" Ł18 + Ł4.95 20" Ł28 + Ł8 30" Ł50 + Ł8 code CT127
Pair of cats Ł24 + Ł4.95 P+P code CT128	Carved cat Ł5 + Ł1.50 P+P code CT129A	Wooden cat carving Ł18 + Ł4.50 P+P code CT130

CAT STOOLS

SILVER CAT EARRINGS.
Silver cat earrings Ł9 + Ł1 P+P code JE152

For more hand carved wooden cats ,resin cats and other felines click on Cats2.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these carved cats by mail order please contact by phone 0115 9382394, or by e-mail to confirm the cat is still in stock.

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Roots also stocks many other carvings including wooden dogs, carved elephants, carved horses, carved cowboys and indians, Buddahs, and a wide range of unusual giftware such as masks, various morocan style lanterns, brightly coloured sandanimals, costume jewllery, hand made mulberry paper and cards and many other items. Visit our shop to see our full display at
Roots
17,NOTTINGHAM ROAD
KIMBERLEY
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG16 2NB
TEL: 0115 9382394

We are five minutes from junction 26 of the M1 and Ikea, within easy reach of Derby, Leicester, Shefield and Stoke, at the heart of the east midlands. Please see home page for map.

Chang Mai, where many of these hand carved cats originate, is the largest city in Northern Thailand. Surrounded by mountains it lies about eighty miles from the border with Mayamar (formerly Burma) and about one hundred and twenty miles from the border with Laos. The area around Chang Mai has a long and rich tradition of wood carving, with craftsmen and women beautifully sculpting figures and animals. From elegantly simplistic cat carvings to incredibly elaborate families of elephants carved into tree trunks and roots. From elegant gold leaf Buddah's to plain wood owl stools. The wood carvers of northern Thailand are master craftsmen with skills developed over a lifetime and techniques learnt over generations and past from father to son, mother to daughter. In recent years the exporting of these carvings has become an important part of the economy of northern Thailand. Many of the carvings come from village cooperatives or single families.

The carved cats of Caernarvon

A nonsense poem about cats

The carved cats of Caernarvon
were carved by cats in caves.
These carving cats, they came in carts
and coracles carried by the waves.
The carving cats that came to carve
in Caernarvon's caves carved cats,
carried cans of curried lambs
and sweet jars full of boiled bats.
And so the cats in carts they carved
in caves Caernarvon's cat carvings.
Carved cats were carved in angels guise
with harps beneath their fury wings.
Some cats carved, carved cats with mice
preaching love and brotherhood,
before the rascally rodents rose
and signed their name in Satan's blood.
And cats were carved by carving cats
ministering mercies to brute birds,
that ate the lords most sacred worms,
stunned mute by cats forgiving words.
In Caernarvon's caves were carved
cats and kittens cute and kind,
tendering to the little fishes
that out of water, cats did find.
And carving cats, carved cats asleep
cat napping at the end of day,
when the toil of their industries
heavy on their bodies lay.
These cat carvings were carved in caves
by carving cats with cultured care,
so if Cearnarfon calls out come
be sure to see those carved cats there.

Cats in literature.

For more poems about cats see the work of T.S.Elliot who loved cats so much he wrote a whole collection of poems inspired by cats. Other poets moved by cats to compose verse include the eighteenth century poet Christopher Smart in "Jubilate Agno", and in the twentieth century, A.S.J Tessimond, Vita Sackville-West and Ogden Nash. Cats feature in a variety of other literature from the cheshire cat in Lewis Carols' "Alice in Wonderland" to Rudyard Kiplings' Just So " The cat who walked by himself".

Cats in music

Cool cats in music include Australian cult figure Rolf Harris with "The cat came back", eighties pop band Squeeze who had a number three hit with "Cool for cats", and another Australian connection, Eric Bogle, whose self penned song about a cat being run over offended lovers of cats everywhere. Stick to your anti war songs Eric. Andrew Lloyd Webber has of course meowed the critics with his musical "Cats", but mention cats to serious pianists with unpronounceable names and their eyes will glaze frosty, their nostrils flare like crumhorns and in a muttering of incomprehensible sillybulls you may just be able to distinguish the words Scarlatti, "the Cat". This eighteenth century "sonata" was inspired by a cat running across Scarlatti's Hapsichord. The African composer Elle Enfanta was inspired much the same way in the sonata "The elephant".