woodwork – Teufelskunst

Mabon Box

Engraved with my Mabon sigil, this box celebrates the beginning of autumn and the harvest of the season. It is perfect for storing smaller sacred objects such as paper sigils, stones, crystals, amulets, beeswax candles etc. E.g. I fill seasonal boxes with sympathetic objects and place them beside the bed for inspired dreaming. This box measures ca. 14 cm x 16 cm x 3 cm and comes including:

1x Lughnasadh Incense
1x Mabon Incense
1x Samhain Incense

In addition are included seeds, fresh from the end of Summer ’24 gathered by Bussardflug and by myself:

Atropa belladonna
Aconitum napellus
Bryonia dioica
Conium maculatum
Datura stramonium
Digitalis purpurea
Hyoscyamus niger
Solanum dulcamara
Angelica archangelica
Artemisia absinthium
Foeniculum vulgare
Opoponax chironium (rare!)
Ruta graveolens
Salvia apiana
Salvia mellifera
Symphytum officinale

Comfrey seeds with little bones found in the soil beneath…

Along with the box can be ordered a custom pendant / herbal amulet filled with rare witch herbs and paraphernalia. Please e-mail me along with your purchase to discuss the details.

3 available, scheduled to ship September 30 ’24

September 21, 2024

Posted In: Herbs & Seeds, Feast Days, Boxes

Tags: wooden boxes, feast days, wheel of the year, seeds, mabon, autumn coloring, incense, harvest feast, box set, boxes, pyrogravure, woodwork, harvest season, autumn equinox, harvest

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Seed Boxes 2024

The first 5 seed boxes have been shipped during the vernal equinox week! It’s been a hell of a work again and took longer than last time from start to finish. Extras inlcuded are some rare Echinacea ‘Green Twister’, darkred climbing monkshood, different ‘slate black’ lenten roses, Caucasian mandrake, some lovely low growing foxglove called ‘silverfox’ and big fat mandrake seeds harvested by my German friend @bussardflug Further this year’s box comes with seeds for growing your own fragrant sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) and the endangered white sage (Salvia apiana).

This year’s seed box is different! The boxes are pyrographed on all sides, with a variation of the Sigillum Major (Greater Seed Sowing Sigil) on the lid and devils and lunar planting symbols on the sides. The bottom is pyrographed again with the Sigillum Minor (Lesser Seed Sowing Sigil).

I have now started on the next 5 boxes… there’s exactly one box left for pre-order. 🙂

The preview shows the plain pyrographed boxes. In the next step these are stained with dark oak on the corpus and dark green to light oak color on the lid.

They are filled again with the annual seed harvest, gathered from my own witch plants, as well as seeds sourced from trusted nuseries and herbalists. The full list:

Aquilegia atrata
Aconitum napellus
Aconitum hemsleyanum ‘Red Wine’ (rare!)
Atropa belladonna
Datura ferox (rare!)
Datura innoxia
Datura metel var. Fastuosa ‘Black Currant Swirl’
Datura metel var. Fastuosa ‘Golden Queen Triple’ (rare!)
Datura stramonium
Digitalis purpurea ssp. heywoodii ‘Silverfox’ (rare!)
Helleborus foetidus
Helleborus x orientalis, dark color mix (rare!)
Hyoscyamus niger
Mandragora caulescens (rare!)
Mandragora officinarum (rare!)
Nicotiana tabacum
Papaver somniferum ‘Black Peony’
Solanum dulcamara

Angelica archangelica
Artemisia absinthium
Circaea lutetiana
Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Twister’ (rare!)
Foeniculum vulgare ‘Bronce’
Helianthus annuus ‘Black Magic’
Hierochloe odorata
Hypericum androsaemum
Rudbeckia occidentalis ‘Green Wizzard’
Ruta graveolens
Salvia apiana
Symphytum officinale
Tropaeolum minus ‘Black Velvet’
Valeriana officinalis
Verbena officinalis

Below are some examples of plants and flowers I have grown successfully from seed and which are included in this year’s seed box:

Update: the pre-order for the second batch of boxes is sold out. When I have finished these I will announce the next five boxes.

April 1, 2024

Posted In: Garden, Herbs & Seeds

Tags: seed boxes, blackingreen, woodwork, wooden boxes, witch garden, handmade, sigillum major, pyrography, poison path, seeds, black flowers, witch herbs, gothic garden

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Birch is for Fertility and New Beginnings

I have been silent but not lazy, as I am heading into the last weeks of pregnancy and continue being creative, while embracing the transforming effects of this wondrous process.

I continue working with the birch’s wood, which will likely be my last artworks before giving birth. Here is my second “Berkano” disc:

Pyrographed during the lunar eclipse, that occurred earlier in January 2020

I have also began work on the third and fourth birch wood disc, which will focus on the birch’s roll in the Ogham and other animistic attributions connected to the birch, featuring the heron as one of my favorite spirit animals.

There have been a lot of requests for new seed boxes – expect an update on these next week!

Bloody halo and partial lunar eclipse, photographed January 10th 2020

January 24, 2020

Posted In: News & Site Updates

Tags: pentagram discs, woodwork, birch, pyrography, berkano, animism, lunar eclipse, runes, magical weapons, pentacles

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Seed Boxes 2019

The past months were spent crafting and filling another row of Teufelskunst seed boxes. This year’s regular series included again a variety of new and old witch herb classics, while the recent “Black Flowers” edition, which was finalized this week, holds again a little treasury of extravagant, black or near black flowering plants as well as some vegetables with black fruits. Below are a few impressions of the final boxes. All remaining black flowers boxes will be shipped on the 15th of July. Please watch your email inboxes (and spam folders) for shipping notifications.

Black Flowers Seed Boxes, edition of 11, July 2019

July 13, 2019

Posted In: Herbs & Seeds

Tags: occult art, wooden boxes, greater seed sowing seal, sigillum major, pyrography, black flowers, gothic garden, seeds, seed boxes, woodwork, limited editions

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Seed Boxes 2018

Over three months in the making – the seed boxes for 2018 are finally here! All those, who had asked to be added to the reservation list, have been notified in e-mail earlier and pre-orders have now been processed. It is with joy, that I can say, the special “black flowers” edition sold out within a few days. There are still 3 of the regular seed boxes left. For ordering please go here.

Some impressions of the work progress on these latest seed boxes:

6 regular (red) with seeds for 69 different witch herbs + 4 “black flowers” boxes

wooden seed boxes, pyrographed, stained and varnished by hand

new motif for the “black flowers” special, applied by hand with blueprint paper

finished “black flowers” seed boxes, pyrographed, stained and varnished by hand

For details about the seeds contained in these boxes and growing info please view the listings in the Teufelskunst webshop and visit my garden blog at Pflanzenkunst.

June 16, 2018

Posted In: Herbs & Seeds

Tags: wooden boxes, witch garden, pyrography, black flowers, gothic garden, special edition, seeds, witch herbs, seed boxes, woodwork

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Walpurgisnacht Followup

“Walpurgisnacht” incense and “Sabbath Seal” pyrographed on willow wood, April 2018

Thanks to everyone that ordered the incense and especially to those, that made use of the opportunity to get their hands on the pyrographed “Sabbath Seal”. The offer was sold out within 24 hours, which makes me proud and encourages me to proceed on this wicked journey. Special thanks to Antinomian Antipodean and Hanged Man’s Seed Apothecary for extra supplies.

I am now working on the next offer, which will be 6 regular wooden seed boxes, 4 black flower themed wooden seed boxes and 5 mandrake drawings + live plants. Reservations may be placed via email.

Thank you for your patience and continued support!

On a personal note, my move went well. The new work place is nearly set up and I have started discovering Düsseldorf and making new friendships. It is still a big change and I have to get used to living without a garden here and adopting to a new rhythm. I still have a few plants in pots and sown simple kitchen herbs last weekend. Meanwhile the green in the garden in Dresden are exploding. Likewise does the nature around me.

So continue the hunt and the attempts at trying to capture fleeting moments of enticement. The grey heron watches and leaves, only to return in unexpected moments. The shower of cherry blossoms in the light of the rising sun is long gone again. The impressions live on in the mind and heart and art of the magician, who keeps collecting and processing, surrounded by the current bloom of fragrant lilac and carnation…

May 3, 2018

Posted In: Feast Days, News & Site Updates, Incense

Tags: pyrography, shop news, artwork, spring, walpurgisnacht, blooming season, woodwork, contemplation, incense blends

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Seed Boxes Follow-up

The latest seed boxes have been sold and shipped. I received much more inquiries than expected and will get back to each individually. Please bare with me if this takes a few more days. I have also started preparations for the next boxes, these being #31-36. It will take a couple of weeks to complete these. My plan is to have them ready in time for mid-spring – for sowing all those herbs that like it warm. The other seeds that come with the box can be sown in autumn or given the artificial cold treatment in the fridge.

About the boxes: they contain seeds from at least 44 different venific and benific ‘witch’ herbs. The boxes are pyrographed with the “Sigillum Major” or “Greater Sowing Seal”, which you also see as the official logo of Teufelskunst. The boxes are then stained and varnished. Following this, hundreds of little paper bags are labeled and filled with the seeds, which I partly gather by myself and partly purchase from other places. I usually spend at least 40 hours on four of these boxes. It is a tedious but also rewarding process, which gives me the chance to connect deeper with the herbs and it also empties the mind and brings new inspiration. I also learn how the seed for each herb looks and what it requires to break its dormancy. It is my hope that the content of these boxes will bring joy to others and aid them in their own studies.

Please write to me at info@teufelskunst.com if you wish to reserve one in the future!

March 17, 2017

Posted In: Herbs & Seeds

Tags: witch garden, greater seed sowing seal, sigillum major, seeds, pyrography, witch herbs, sowing, seed boxes, woodwork, sowing and growing, wooden boxes, wooden seed boxes

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