Online Talk - textiles — Cornwall 365 What's On

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Free online talk £0

Dates

Wed 7th February, 2024
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3:00 pm |
This online talk with last approximately 1.5 hours

About this event

Brief history of textiles in West Cornwall & the story of Crysede Silks, with Janet Axten

Join us for this illustrated online talk with Janet Axten, MA – an introduction to a subject that requires much wider recognition.

Cornwall has never been known for its textile industry, yet the profession has provided employment for numerous local women over the years.

Janet’s new and on-going research looks at this fascinating history, and at the same time places the ground-breaking company, Crysede Silks, founded in Newlyn in 1918, and expanding into St Ives in 1926, into its wider national context.

The talk will also, provide an opportunity to learn to value future textile design and manufacture here in Cornwall.

This online talk will be delivered over Zoom. You can book your free space over on our Ticket Tailor event booking page.

About the speaker: Janet Axten is a researcher, writer, and lecturer. She moved to St Ives in 1985 and graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in History from the Open University in 1993. She obtained an MA in Cornish Studies with the University of Exeter in 2004. In 1996 she co-founded the St Ives Archive, and was its Heritage Manager for the next twenty-four years.

In 2008 she was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh with the bardic name of Porthia y’m Kolonn-vy (St Ives in my Heart). Janet is currently researching and lecturing on the role of women in the textile industry in West Cornwall. She is also part of the recently formed ‘Crysede Collective’, a group which brings together curators, specialists and makers from across Cornwall to celebrate the working processes of the Crysede Silk Company in Newlyn, St Ives and Hayle, between 1918 and 1953.

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This event will be online only, but if you visit us in person at Kresen Kernow, here's our accessibility information: Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow.

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