New Canon Pastor appointed - Truro Cathedral

Cornwall Guild of
Weavers, Spinners
& Dyers
Bell ringer's Jigsaw
A special wooden jigsaw has been commissioned
to celebrate the Cathedral bells Centenary. It is
based on a banner produced by students from
Penair School, Truro.
Sarah Hughes, the Cathedral's Education Officer,
said, "the original idea was to create a banner
that celebrated the centenary of the bells. We
wanted to take a fresh look at bell ringing so we
asked students from Penair School if they'd like to
participate. Art practitioners Cloth of Gold
helped to facilitate the project, the resulting banner
has been much admired with the image used
to make a testing jigsaw.”
A grant from the Central Council of Bell Ringers
has enabled a limited number of jigsaws of the
banner to be produced.
The jigsaw is priced at £20 and is
available from the Cathedral Office
on a first come first served basis.
The Cornwall Guild of Weavers, Spinners &
Dyers has been in existence since 1951, and is
one of the oldest Guilds in the country. 2011
will see them celebrating their 60th anniversary.
We have a vast and varied array of talents that has
been showcased over the years at various
exhibitions. Not least to say that members designed
and created the cushion which sits on The Bardic
Chair of the Grand Bard in Truro Cathedral, also in
the Cathedral is a curtain, designed and woven by
our members, depicting life in Cornwall.
We are a teaching Guild and among the aims of the
Guild we try to encourage the ongoing traditional
art of hand spinning, weaving & dyeing, to promote
and increase the public interest and awareness
within these crafts. We are also aware of bringing
the crafts into the 21st Century, so we have started
with a website www.cgwsd.btik.com
We promote our crafts at many events held around
the County during the summer season and actively
encourage people to participate in the mini
workshops that we run at these events.
Alongside the spinning and weaving, we
demonstrate affiliated crafts such as felting.
We hold two meetings a month; on the 3 rd Friday at
Tresillian Village Hall which is our main venue and
where we invite speakers and tutors, experts in their
field, to run lectures or workshops.
Our second venue is Chacewater W.I. Hall on the 4 th
Saturday. As the hall is not large it lends itself to
more informal and cosy meetings.
To celebrate our Diamond Anniversary, we are
holding a travelling exhibition with the first of these
having been held in Penryn Museum. The first
President of our Guild was Violetta Thurstan, who
was a great weaver and dyer and resided in Penryn,
her loom sits within the museum and her house is on
the Penryn Historical Trail, so it seemed fitting that
we started there. The other major sites for the
exhibition are Truro Cathedral 8 th – 22 nd August,
and at Wheal Martyn Clay Museum 10 th – 31 st
October
Audrey Durrant
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