As part of our ongoing work as a development house for testing and creating new products, using a range of materials and fibres, we recently produced a woollen spun, 12ysw…
As a specialist British woollen mill in the heart of Cornwall, we’re proud of the traditional values we hold whilst maintaining an innovative and forward-looking approach in developing our work….
As the photos of our machines above show, processing wool and making yarns is quite technical and we try with information sheets, emails and phone calls to explain how wool…
So here are some white sheep – but that’s about the only thing they have in common – they are different sizes, have very different fleeces and also personalities. So…
As we have done since we were 10, we have made a special one-off limited edition yarn again this autumn. We have a few things which characterise this yarn in…
I have not written a blog recently – mainly because I have been very busy handing over to the the new owners of the business. The photo above is of…
Feste, the clown in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, sang that “the rain it raineth every day” and sometimes it feels very much like this in our native Cornwall. The line also…
I love reading. We have too many books, probably, although I am not sure this is possible. They are in pretty much every rooom of our house … I have…
Now that we have introduced each colour in the Cornish Garden palette, it’s time to put them together. The photos of the gardens really speak for themselves, so here we…
Cotehele is an ancient Tudor fortified manor house built on a bluff in the Tamar Valley, hidden away for defensive reasons originally. The Tudor building was created in the…
The Lost Gardens of Heligan are amongst the most famous and popular of Cornish gardens for visitors. The 200 acres languished after the 1914-18 war, which killed many of…
While bluebells are lovely, there is something bigger, brighter, more Cornish and altogether longer lasting about the blue of hydrangeas. So there was really no other option but to call…
Boconnoc is a large estate which today specialises in opening for events ranging from private weddings to steam fairs, along with classical concerts, yoga retreats and garden open days. There…
There are a few buds which are the colour of this yarn, but not many flowers! So again we have chosen to go for sculpture, with the Tremenheere Sculpture Gallery…
Cornwall is a rocky, stony place and of course many people create beauutiful rockery gardens, emulating the flowered cliffs and river valleys or the heathered moors. So for the natural…
Choosing colours is pretty important! All our customers tell us they go for the colour first. So we have tried to both inspire and reassure – we have the comfortable…