Trug - the word derives from the same root as trough - They are made from split strakes of wood (I'm not sure which one) curved into a sort of rectangular container, a bit like a longish coracle. The strakes are held in place with split hazel wands with the bark on. The handle is another split wand which wraps round the base as well as forming the handle. Some trug have wooden stands on the base. The ladylike ones, for carrying on the arm with a delicate spray of flowers in, don't. My mother, the daughter of a gardener used hers (two) for keeping gardening gloves, secateurs, twine, trowel, fork etc, as well as weeds on the way to the compost heap, and vegetables on the way to the kitchen. They were working trugs. I scorn the ladylike accessory use. Also the plastic things which describe themselves as trugs. Latest sighting was a builders' deep plastic floppy buckety thing described as one. The advantage of the trug is that you can see everything, and don't have to fish in a deep container for cutting edges or thorny things. They are properly a green byproduct of woodland management, and a local folky item.

Penny (no lady) (Can anyone give me an address for a trug maker? I need one to stop me losing secateurs)