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Visitors often comment
that our shop is an Aladdin's cave. We stock about 1000 items, 90% of
which are MADE IN WALES. Most of our suppliers are small family firms, or individual
crafts people.
We produce some clothes,
either knitted or woven, based on wool from our own rare sheep, or made
from artificial fleece. Our wool is also used in knitting and weaving kits, and
can be bought as balls of un-dyed knitting wool, hanks ready for dyeing
or as carded fleece for spinners. We also sell commercial
King Cole wool.
In
the pottery you can see how we make our range of earthenware
products and make glass
jewelry. We decorate bone china in the house, but can set up a
demonstration if you give us some notice. The same goes for some basic
wool processing. You can also throw a pot on one of our potter's wheels, or have
a go at decorating ready made bone china.
Near the shop and pottery you can
also see our collections of old machinery,
radios cameras and home computers.
Our
small farm used to have a flock of rare Norfolk Horn sheep,
(Only the lambs born in Spring 2010 are here now). Norfolk Horns, in spite of
their name, would have been here 1000 years ago. (Or at least the Universal Saxon
Black Faced Sheep of which the Norfolk is the closest surviving descendant,
would have been.)
The Woodland
walk consists of 2 miles of regularly mown grass paths on an easy circular
route through 16 species of trees, mature hedges, beautiful views, numerous
species of wild flowers dragonflies and butterflies and over 60 species of birds.
For the dedicated wildlife watchers we also have interesting flora of fungi and
lichens, and a fair representation of mammals (including bats, and freshwater
mammals,) reptiles and amphibians. The walk is also marked up as a nature and
brass rubbing trail.
After shopping, potting,
and walking you can recuperate in our friendly tearoom where we serve hot
and cold drinks, cream teas and light snacks. Also delicious local ice-cream.
If
you can't do everything you want to in one day why not bring your tent or
caravan? Our Camping and Caravan Club Certificated Site is only open to
members, but you can join here.
We are Huw
and Thelma, and with a little help from the family we try to look after
everything ourselves and would be delighted to show you round! Please note that
although we try to ensure that this website correct, some things will change
between updates. If you notice any errors please let us know, so that we can
correct them for the benefit of other users.
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Glyn-Coch Craft Centre
Pwll Trap, St. Clears, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Tel: 01994 231867
Glyn-Coch Email
(info@glyn-coch.com) Other ways you can Contact Us |
Kids: Visit Dragon's Corner, Teddy Bear's Picnic or Toys!!
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Craftspeople. |
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Please look
at our host's website to see the
dream craftsman's tool for all repetitive work. |
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The Z90 (see Routout's products page) might
look hi-tech and industrial, but these very versatile machines are turned
out at a rate of one a week by one man working in his garden shed, and
sold for a fraction of the price of the competition. (We've met an elderly
craftsman who paid over three times the price.) If you worry about
quality look at the list of his customers! Design and finish of your
products is still up to you! |
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