Handmade Garden Games

Garden Games and How they are made

Making Jaques Garden and Outdoor Games.
Manufacturing Garden Games

Pictured above are the now famous Jaques Garden Games workshops and manufacturing facility.

Jaques Garden Games are still all Hand Finished and in many cases fully handmade. The Skill involved in making the handmade Garden Games range that Jaques present you today is still at the same exacting level as it was when Jaques invented croquet at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.

In 1862 John Jaques the Third Made History when he won two gold medals for his Games innovation. These gold medals are still very much an indicator to just how well Jaques Finest Quality handmade Garden games are made.
 

John Jaques III was not only innovative; he never lost sight of the importance of the great skill of Garden Games craftsmanship. What had made Jaques of London famous was still very much in evidence, now harnessed to modern methods. Jaques Garden games started to represent so much more than just gaming - they began to represent a lifestyle.

Nowhere was this truer than in the production of Jaques Garden Games and Garden Pursuits such a bowls. John Jaques III installed  machinery for this rapidly developing sport which resulted in a happy fulfillment of his great-grandfather's claim:

Bowling Green Bowles Tum'd Correctly. So young Thomas Jaques had written in 1795 on that first, ambitious, and still-accurate, business card.

So Jaques are quite rightly so the worlds Finest quality Garden Games Manufacturers. The History of Jaques and Garden Games making now spans back over 150 years.