Staying close to nature...
Bellacouche
An introduction
The word Bellacouche comes from the traditional name of our barn workshop, and means ‘beautiful resting place’.
Anne Belgrave lives on the Welsh Border, & Yuli Somme on Dartmoor - we have worked together over several years to bring you this new and gentler approach to burial. A love of landscape and the natural world influences our choice of materials and design - we share a desire to make something that stays close to nature, and is also intrinsically strong, soft, and comforting.
Our ideas
Many funeral rituals lack relevance to our contemporary lives and evade any allusion to the imagery of death, and the possibility of a final journey.
However ceremonies are beginning to adapt to cultural change, and new rituals are evolving.
The leaf is an eloquent metaphor for the changing seasons of our lives, and is the inspiration behind this gentle felt leafshroud. It is also an appropriate choice for a woodland burial site.
The leafshroud is designed to be used instead of a coffin for both woodland and traditional burial.
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