{"title":"Recycled Metalwork","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"recycled-metal-pig","title":"Recycled Metal Pig","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA standing pig in reclaimed sheet steel, built to be put somewhere specific - the end of a console table, a doorstep, the edge of a planter. Rounded through the body, ears cut by hand and set at a tilt, a curl of coiled wire for the tail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe steel comes from Zimbabwean scrap yards and end-of-life material. Each pig is cut, beaten over a form and welded by hand, then finished in a chalk white worked back across the shoulders, flanks and haunches so the metal shows through underneath. The snout and trotters are left dark. On the larger sizes the makers have more room to work, so panel seams and rivet heads stay visible along the flanks - the construction is part of what you're looking at rather than something buried under paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWeld lines and small breaks in the paint are how these are made. No two come out the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall\u003c\/strong\u003e — 13 × 6 × 7cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — 15 × 7 × 10cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLarge\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003cem\u003e(to follow)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFine outdoors, where the paint will soften and the exposed steel deepen. Best in a stepped run of all three\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFine outdoors, where it will weather gently and improve for it. Good in threes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":54666282434897,"sku":"MBH-MW-001","price":5.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":54666282467665,"sku":"MBH-MW-003","price":8.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large","offer_id":54666282500433,"sku":"MBH-MW-005","price":12.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/02.heic?v=1787480470"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-hedgehog","title":"Recycled Metal Hedgehog","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA hedgehog built from reclaimed steel, its back covered in dozens of spines cut and set one at a time. Each is tipped in pale paint against the dark body, so the whole back reads as a mass of quills - and throws a proper shadow across whatever it's standing on when the light is low.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe head is a tapered cone of steel with a pricked ear either side and a darkened snout. Four legs, splayed, clawed, caught mid-scurry. The body keeps the gunmetal tone of the steel it came from, with the variation you get from working metal by hand rather than pressing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe spines are set individually, so no two hedgehogs have quite the same texture across the back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e12cm long, 10cm wide, 8cm high.\u003c\/strong\u003e Roughly the size of a grapefruit, and heavier than it looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStays put on a shelf, hall table or windowsill, and just as happy tucked into planting or sat on a garden wall where the spines catch the sun.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54665280192849,"sku":"MBH-MW-002","price":6.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/05.heic?v=1787481311"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-squirrel","title":"Recycled Metal Squirrel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA squirrel sitting up on its haunches with a nut held in both front paws, raised to the mouth. Back curved, head tipped forward, ears pricked - it reads as an animal in the middle of doing something rather than an ornament of one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tail is the piece. Lengths of wire cut and fanned into a full bottlebrush plume that arcs up behind the body, open enough that light comes through the gaps and it throws a real shadow. The body is worked in a dark oxidised bronze-black with a hammered, mottled surface. Ears, paws and haunches are each cut and shaped before being welded on. The nut is picked out in warm orange, which is what pulls your eye straight to the hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery tail is fanned by hand, so no two sit the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e16cm nose to tail, 15cm high, 6cm wide.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a shelf, desk or hall table, and better still outdoors - on a wall top, a patio step, or the edge of a raised bed where the tail silhouettes against planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54666378477905,"sku":"MBH-MW-004","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/05_9b45d24a-f42b-4ae1-9b56-12a27edb8cd9.heic?v=1787492609"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-cockerel","title":"Recycled Metal Cockerel","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA cockerel with its chest out and head up, built from overlapping panels of salvaged painted steel - mustard yellow, oxblood, cobalt, worn off-white - each cut to shape and welded so the edges stand proud like feathers rather than lying flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe tail is the thing. A fan of long curved blades sweeping up and back, wide enough to nearly double the apparent width of the bird. The head is dark metal with a serrated red comb, a hanging wattle, a pale beak and a punched eye. Fine wire legs drop to splayed three-toed feet, welded flat so it stands on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe paint isn't applied - it is whatever was already on the metal when it reached the workshop. Which means the colours land differently on every bird, and you won't get the one in the photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall\u003c\/strong\u003e — 17 × 8 × 21cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — 18 × 10 × 25cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe strongest colour in the range, and the piece that pulls a shelf together when everything around it is white and gunmetal. Good on a kitchen worktop, dresser or hall table, and fine outdoors on a wall top or step.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":54666474029393,"sku":"MBH-MW-006","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":54666474062161,"sku":"MBH-MW-011","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/04_a13bd5f4-7289-4ec2-9887-5c5330b7b1a0.heic?v=1787493019"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-chicken","title":"Recycled Metal Chicken","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA hen with a full belly and a settled stance, built from panels of chalk white salvaged sheet curved together into a rounded body. Wing feathers are cut and welded proud along each flank so they stand clear and break up the profile rather than lying flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe head and neck are worked in dark oxidised metal against the pale body, with a serrated red comb, a wattle under the beak and a punched eye. Rivet heads sit visible across the breast and wing. Fine wire legs drop to long splayed toes, welded flat so she stands on uneven ground and throws a spidery shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe crazing, staining and wear on the panels came with the metal. It hasn't been added and it hasn't been cleaned off, so the markings land differently on every bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSmall\u003c\/strong\u003e — 17 × 12 × 17cm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e — 22 × 17 × 24cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a kitchen worktop, dresser or windowsill, and fine outdoors on a step, wall top or among low planting. Best as a group with the cockerels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Small","offer_id":54666670965073,"sku":"MBH-MW-007","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium","offer_id":54666670997841,"sku":"MBH-MW-014","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/7.heic?v=1787493727"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-meerkat","title":"Recycled Metal Meerkat","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA meerkat standing sentry - up on its hind legs, chest forward, forepaws held loosely in front, head turned and tilted upward. The pose is the whole piece. At 27cm it's the tallest of the small work and it reads in silhouette from the other side of a room.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe body is a soft off-white with dark oxidised blotching across the chest, flanks and haunches, where the donor metal had worn through and the weld heat coloured the steel. It isn't a painted pattern - it's what the material did. The muzzle is dark metal with a punched eye and fine whiskers of drawn wire, the ears are small cut discs set flat to the skull, and a long tapered tail sweeps down and out behind to act as a third point of balance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe blotching lands wherever the metal and the heat put it, so no two coats are the same.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e17 × 8 × 27cm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGood on a hall console, shelf or windowsill, and better outdoors on a step, wall top or set among grasses where the upright stance clears the planting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54666813571409,"sku":"MBH-MW-008","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/05_aef9ec12-6374-4c2b-9868-7ef3f9d52db2.heic?v=1787494294"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-cow","title":"Recycled Metal Cow","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA standing cow with a long back, deep chest and head raised. The anatomy is what carries it - shoulder, haunch and belly are each shaped as separate riveted sections rather than cut from one silhouette, so it has structure from every angle and the legs draw down to fine cloven hooves that hold it steady.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe hide is two-tone: dark oxidised bronze-black broken by broad panels of chalk white across the flank, shoulder and belly, following the markings of a dairy cow. Rivet heads run visibly along every seam. A pair of long curved horns sweep up and out from a dark poll, the muzzle is worked open with shaped nostrils, and a fine tapered tail hangs from the rump with a kick at the tip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhere the white panels fall depends on what the salvaged sheet gave the maker that day. No two are marked the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e20 × 8 × 23cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA feature piece rather than a shelf filler. Good on a hall console, sideboard or kitchen dresser, and strong outdoors on a path edge, wall top or set among grasses.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54666857152849,"sku":"MBH-MW-009","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/5_ace14043-b518-4a60-9fd8-399140decb4a.heic?v=1787495000"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-goat","title":"Recycled Metal Goat","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA standing goat, head raised and tail cocked, caught mid-stride with one foreleg advanced - restless and browsing where the cow is settled. Same build, entirely different animal: lighter through the body, longer and finer in the leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe body is curved panels of chalk white salvaged sheet, carrying the crazing, ochre staining and wear the metal already had, with welded seams left showing along the spine and haunch. Head, neck, legs and hooves are worked in dark oxidised steel against it. The detailing is where this one earns its keep - long ridged horns swept back from the poll, drop ears set below them, and a cut and layered beard hanging from the chin. The tail is a short upright blade of pale steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe ochre staining came with the sheet. It falls differently on every goat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e20 × 8 × 23cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a hall console, sideboard or dresser, and strong outdoors on a path edge or wall top, where the pale body reads clearly against green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54674499961169,"sku":"MBH-MW-010","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/6_6d2aba49-fcd5-4f85-8294-7248ec5290ae.heic?v=1787572651"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-bicycle-planter","title":"Recycled Metal Bicycle Planter","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA cyclist on a delivery bicycle with a pot cradled over the back wheel. The most narrative piece in the range, and one of the few with a job to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe rider is drawn rather than assembled - flowing lengths of steel bar shaped into a slim figure leaning into the handlebars, flat-brimmed hat set on the head, one leg down to the pedal. The bicycle is bent rod: two spoked wheels, triangular frame, saddle, pedals, all forge-shaped and welded by hand. The rear carrier is a ring-and-strut cradle that holds a terracotta pot properly, and the whole thing stands on flat welded feet rather than balancing on the rims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eLeft unpainted, so the surface carries the warm rust-brown patina the steel arrived with. Every one weathers differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 × 13 × 25cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood for a small herb, succulent or trailing plant. Works on a kitchen worktop, windowsill or conservatory shelf, and comes into its own outdoors against a sunlit wall - the openwork frame throws a better shadow than the piece itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePot and plant not included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54674560287057,"sku":"MBH-MW-013","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/4_68f66a09-2edf-422a-9c46-d8ea87128e1c.heic?v=1787572993"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-squirrel-bird-feeder","title":"Recycled Metal Squirrel Bird Feeder","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA squirrel sat back on its haunches, holding out a shallow dish in both forepaws. The larger of the two squirrels in the range and the one with a job - fill the dish with seed, mealworms or water and it earns its place in a garden rather than decorating one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe body is dark oxidised bronze-brown with a hammered, dimpled surface that catches light across the shoulders and back. Ears are cut as separate rounded plates and set pricked, the head turned slightly. The tail is the standout: a full bottlebrush plume of individually cut wire strands, fanned and arced up behind the body. The dish is hand-beaten, welded firmly to the paws, with a raised lip and an irregular hammered surface underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEvery tail is fanned by hand and every dish beaten separately, so no two sit quite the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e29cm deep, 13cm wide, 24cm high.\u003c\/strong\u003e At 0.8kg it has enough weight to sit on a wall, tree stump, decking rail or post top without fixing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBest somewhere sheltered and visible from a window.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54674577424721,"sku":"MBH-MW-015","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/1_7c97b0cd-fbfd-4083-926d-a129835e3430.heic?v=1787573245"},{"product_id":"recycled-metal-guinea-fowl","title":"Recycled Metal Guinea Fowl","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA guinea fowl standing tall on fine legs, neck extended, head raised. At 31cm it's one of the tallest pieces in the range and the silhouette is unmistakable - a heavy teardrop body carried high, small head, that distinctive helmet crest. If a Zimbabwean range has a signature bird, this is it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe body is a smooth swelling form shaped from steel and finished in dark oxidised brown-black, then hand-painted all over with rows of small white spots that follow the curve of the flank and taper down the neck the way the real plumage does. Hundreds of them, one at a time. The head carries a bright red casque above the crown and a matching wattle under a pale hooked beak - the only colour on an otherwise dark bird. Fine banded legs run down to long splayed toes, welded flat and set wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe spots are placed by eye, so the pattern falls differently on every bird.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e24 × 18 × 31cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGood on a hall console, dresser or wide windowsill, and strong outdoors on a path edge or among grasses, where the spotted body reads clearly against green.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mbira Home","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54674664456529,"sku":"MBH-MW-016","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/6165\/1025\/files\/1_a0432506-36d6-4148-a0f5-e1230f23daf0.heic?v=1787574268"}],"url":"https:\/\/mbirahome.com\/collections\/recycled-metalwork.oembed","provider":"Mbira Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}