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A Scapreel (pronounce: scaprail, also scaprede,
scaprade, scapraay) is middle-dutch for a small hanging lockable
cupboard. It used to hang near the fire-place and contained special
goods that, because of their worth or use, could not be placed
in open view. These could be a partly cut bread as well as precious
crockery. Pewter cups or bronze candlesticks, for instance, were
highly priced items of furniture in the later middle ages, which
were placed under lock and key when they were not in use.
Spices and unusual herbs were also of too much value to lay unattended
around the house, as were salt, sheets of vellum, paternosters
or breviaries. All of these were at one time or another kept
in the Scapreel of people who could afford it and it's contents.
The cupboard's door used to be decoratively pierced, and the
whole thing was hung on the wall to keep most larger insects
and mice out.
A Scapreel therefore is a receptacle and depository of different more or less valuable or usefull items, as is tScapreel. Our doors, however, are hospitably opened for everyone who wants to know more about what we have stored in our knowledge- and experience-depositories. We aim to let people use this knowledge to the advantage of their product.