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Embroidered wall hanging celebrates Cornish mining

BBC A photo which shows three women stood next to each other. The woman on the left has short blonde-ish hair and glasses, she is wearing a black and white patterned top with white buttons up the front, she is holding her hands together in front of her. The woman in the middle has shoulder length hair and is wearing glasses, she is wearing a blue long jacket and a blue and white patterned top. The woman on the left has short hair, glasses and a blue and white top.BBC
Women from a community group have made the hanging wall art

A group of women have created a hand-stitched and embroidered wall hanging to celebrate Cornwall's mining history.

The work began in 2023 at Heartlands, a mining heritage site which closed permanently earlier this year.

The women involved found a new place to create their wall hanging at archive centre Kresen Kernow in Redruth, and it has been on display since Monday.

Ann Chalker, from the community creations group, said she came up with the idea to display the art to "try to include people to come in from the community".

A photo of the wall hanging. It shows different bits of patchwork which relates to mining, including a black mining building on the left of the mural, and a man pushing coal down a track on the right.
The wall hanging can be seen in Kresen Kernow in Redruth

The wall hanging shows different pieces of art which are related to mining.

Michelle Brown is another member of the group.

She said she had been to Australia in the past year, and said: "Some of these pieces of material have been to Australia and back.

"As time went on we got a bit more ambitious, we put photographs onto fabric and different trimmings and media to bring out the stories."

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