Welcome to Village Crafts and Cornish Wools - our shop in Perranuthnoe

Welcome to Village Crafts, this picture was taken earlier this week, looking up from our adjoining Cornish Wools knitting wool shop. Here are some really lovely pieces of wooden sculpture from Samvado of the Lizard and a selection of pottery produced by Holly Jackson of Penzance.





















And here is just a small selection of locally hand made jewellery, the necklace and earings are made in Perranuthnoe by Helen Crebo. We have a huge selection of jewellery with lots on display for you to see and try on and perhaps fall in love with.





There are lots and lots of local artist greetings cards for you to choose from and a huge variety of local crafts and gifts ideal for that special birthday or anniversary treat.





Samvado creates some extremely beautiful wood sculptures. He told me, when I visited him recently, that his inspiration comes from the natural form, shape and feel of the piece he intends to work on. I just love this 'One Heart' created from a single piece of Yew wood. Ideal for a wedding or engagement gift!

Different, eclectic, unusual and often the word 'WOW!' are used to describe the Cornish Wools knitting shop. It has an 'arty crafty' look and feel with just the types of yarn that can inspire the textile artist. Here we have some of our Lang knitting wools with baskets and trugs of other exciting yarns such as our Cornish Wools 'Cornish' 4ply sock yarn collection


Here the picture shows some of the items in our Spinning, weaving and felting corner. Hand crafted drop spindles and knitting dollies made in Cornwall by Terry Pearson. Ashford wool carders, pencil rovings and tops, felting needles, gorgeous silk fibres and lots to inspire the textile crafter.

We also stock recycled silk sari ribbon, sari silk, hemp and banana fibre knitting yarns, Ashford traditional spinning wheels, the Ashford Knitters Loom and ideal for beginners the smaller and more straight forward frame looms. So lots to see there too.

Come and visit Perranuthnoe, see our Village Crafts and Cornish Wools shop, have lunch or coffee and a slice of cake in the Peppercorn Cafe or why not bring your dog and boots and take a bracing walk or a leisurely stroll along the cliff path, indulge yourself and just ENJOY!!

Happy New Year - 2011

To all our customers 'New' and 'Old' I would like to wish you all a very Happy, Healthy, Lucky and Successful New Year.

The shop continues as always to be open 7 days a week. We have a lovely selection of local crafts, lots of beautiful jewellery and if you have not discovered it yet and ever growing selection of knitting wools and yarns. Lots of knitting accessories, needles, books and patterns too.

Cornish Wools has arrived and a BIG Welcome to the Peppercorn Cafe

As you will see from this picture we have had a make-over, we have a lovely new Cornish Wools sign and a zinging blue door. You can't miss us now!

The Peppercorn Cafe is now open which is fantastic, it has been a time of anticipation, speculation and 4 months of building works. Yesterday afternoon residents of the village, friends and helpers and fellow workers at the Craft Centre were all invited to the Peppercorn Cafe launch party, lots of people came and the drinks and scrummy cakes went down a treat.

So today Saturday 6th of November the Peppercorn Cafe is officially open, come on down to Perranuthnoe and the Craft Centre and treat yourself to lunch or coffee and cake at the Peppercorn and then do come an pay us a visit there are lots of new things to see and lots of Christmas ideas.

Why not give a knitting kit for Christmas?

Christmas and counting - just some ideas!

This absolutely stunning woodcut picture made by Rob Braybook of Perranuthnoe would really make a wonderful Christmas gift. We have a number of designs in the shop with prices rangeing from £80 to £120.

Another idea could be this amazing perfume atomiser made out of African Blackwood by Terry Pearson of Camborne. It comes with its own little pouch and small pump for filing and perhaps you might add a bottle of cologne or perfume but just on its own it makes a stunning Christmas present. These perfume atomisers are exclusive to Village Crafts. The price is £28 you can either buy from the Perranuthnoe shop or online at our Cornish Wools website, www.cornishwools.co.uk





















Both the Perranuthnoe Village Crafts shop and our Cornish Wools shop online are filled to capacity with gift ideas. Make a visit to either of our shops you won't be dissapointed.

Lovely weather in September

The weather through September has been quite kind to us here in Perranuthnoe, there have been some really lovely days and we have seen many people in walking gear coming into the shop having walked the cliff paths from Prussia and Praa Sands to the East and from Penzance and Marazion to the West.


This hat is knitted in Sirdar Indie and you can find the pattern and knitting yarn both in the Perranuthnoe shop or our online knitting wool shop.




October will bring hopefully more lovely walking weather together with the Harvest Festivals, Thanksgiving in America and Canada (I say this because I spent my early years in Canada) and then comes Halloween with its witches on broomsticks, pumpkins and trick a treat.


If you are inspired by the colours of Autumn and thinking of knitting yourself something special or a Christmas gift then you just need to see the lovely colours of the Autumn knitting yarns.


This Pumpkin coloured knitting yarn is the Crazy Zauberball from Shoppel Wolle - just wonderful for socks!









and and this Blackberry and Autumn sunset
coloured yarn is the Mille Fiamme from Lang yarns, truly beautiful and just right for knitting scarves and hats or whatever you fancy really.





So now to wind up - and on reading all that I have written here I find that I have been warbling on again about knitting wool etc when I was really going to tell you all about the wonderful crafts and gifts we have in the Village Crafts shop. If you are thinking about Christmas and need to get going then do come and have a look around the shop, we have some really different and exclusive present ideas for you to see.

Big changes 'afoot' at Village Crafts

I am looking out of the Cornish Wools office window at blue sky, white clouds and sunshine and with my dog Sharna tucked away under the desk as usual, I'm just sitting here doing a bit of drifting and day dreaming. I really don't feel too guilty about this because over the last 12 months there have been lots of really big things happening at Village Crafts and with our new business Cornish Wools.




The most important is that we now have the Cornish Wools Knitting Shop in the Gallery at Village Crafts and we have also launched our new Cornish Wools online Knitting Shop. So whilst the country has been in recession we have been pushing forward all the time.


Our new website has a full range of our Cornish Eco knitting yarns together with a selction of branded yarns from Sirdar, Lang, Sublime, Schopple, Alpaca Select and Bergere de France. We also have a huge and growing all the time range of knitting needles, knitting patterns and other knitting accessories.

You can access our website on www.cornishwools.co.uk