I absolutely love this little wooden box.

I have visited museums all over America. They are fantastic. And of all them I have a favorite. It is “The Cloisters” in New York city. It is a subsidiary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET). And it is the only museum devoted solely to the medieval period of time.

It is so devoted to it that the building itself is from the medieval period. Monasteries, Cloisters and portions of other buildings were purchased in Europe, dismantled and shipped here to be built into a museum. Kind of cool.

Well, inside this museum is my favorite piece. It is a simple walnut box called a coffret. And the images painted all over the box tell a story of William of Gellone. How he wanted to re-capture the city of Orange. He dressed as a spy and attempted to deliver a false message. But, fell in love with a muslim princess and was discovered and thrown in jail. There is more.. I have written more about William here

Well, the point of my blogpost here is to tell you about my tutorial to make this box out of black foam board. It was on my list for a long time and it came out really good! If you want to make this box the tutorial is right here: Make a Medieval Box (coffret) I use mine to hold office supplies; pencils and stuff like that. Here is a picture of the one I made. And you can make too.