A Different Story - celebrating Cornish Tin and other minerals with wool
As with last year, we were lucky to be able to use the wonderful resources of the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro to stand alongside our new skeins of Cornish Tin II – the second version of our limited edition birthday yarn. Next year we are planning something completely different ...
As on wanders around the bigger exhibits and photo’s, it may be easy to overlook the large glass display cases full of old rocks. This is a shame as the samples have been lovingly collected by avid and knowledgeable people, carefully labelled and stored and then gifted to the Museum. Some of the samples still have their original labels (as above for the sample of Blende, a zinc mineral). Even more importantly, many are special and rare examples of local minerals with the location also identified. And most importantly for us, the colours are astonishing and work very well in contrast with the slight lustre and fluffy texture of our Cornish Tin II yarn.