Cornish Spliced

Cornish Spliced Splicing handmade dog leads/toys & lifestyle products by repurposing discarded fishing/ghost gear. The more weird and wonderful the better!

Our Story…
We are a small family business hand-making dog leads, pet toys and lifestyle products using “splicing” skills and discarded fishing gear…

Making a living from fishing and passing down the skills needed from generation to generation is declining in Cornwall. So we wanted to find a weird and wonderful way to keep fishing skills in our family, whilst helping to protect the environment an

d sea-life for generations to come.

“Grandad Plummer” (Frank) retired from fishing aboard Tyak Mor and then Harvester in St Ives many moons ago. As girls, his two daughters (Rachel and Helen) spent many childhood hours in his “fishing loft”, sat atop bundles of nets whilst he made repairs and maintained his fishing gear. (We can still smell the ropes and feel the nets under our legs!)

Now with grandchildren and several dogs included in the family, grandad always has a bit of rope for when we forget our leads. In October 2021, 14 year old granddaughter Beth wondered if other people might like “a lead with a story”. From a family meeting around the kitchen table & a few social media posts, Cornish Spliced was born on what would have been granny Virginia’s birthday. With grandad Frank, Beth, mum Rachel and aunty Helen now involved, Cornish Spliced products are made by repurposing fishing gear from grandad’s fish loft and other kind local fishing families, as well as ghost gear scooped up on our beach cleans. We are proud to give our finds a “new leash of life”, preventing materials from going to landfill or re-entering the sea. Nets, buoy lines, anchors, floats, “dans”... each item has its own unique story or previous life, which is written on its label. Rope is “spliced” to make joins, so we can affix clips, make handles, combine ropes, etc. As a family, we have loved finding out more about fishing, whilst learning how to splice, keeping this special skill alive and passing down through our generations.

“Spliced” means to join, never-ending, which feels particularly fitting for our family adventure across our generations. We are always on the look-out for other retired and discarded fishing goodies so that we can repurpose it. We also love the challenge that comes with our bespoke item requests. We are constantly adding to the range with new ideas for products, adding knotting to the mix, along with incorporating assorted colours and textures of rope. So do watch this space! For further info, follow us on: Facebook/Twitter or on Instagram. You can also contact us at [email protected]

Do visit www.CornishSpliced.co.uk where you will be able to view and purchase items. If you think you may be able to repurpose any of our beach cleaning finds that we can't use, please contact us to join our friends. Thank you for reading about Cornish Spliced. We hope you will join our adventure.
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We thought you might all like to see "Grandad" and our Granda Joe & uncle Joe in their heyday 😍... !
01/12/2025

We thought you might all like to see "Grandad" and our Granda Joe & uncle Joe in their heyday 😍...
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Check us out not leaving it until dreckly!...
01/12/2025

Check us out not leaving it until dreckly!...

Our special tree is off to Edward Hain Centre in the morning. With everything repurposed - from our fishing gear "bouyba...
30/11/2025

Our special tree is off to Edward Hain Centre in the morning. With everything repurposed - from our fishing gear "bouyballs" available from our online shop, to the tree itself, we love it! We hope the Centre and visitors like it too.

We've sprinkled our Christmas magic and our Edward Hain Centre tree is ready to join their trail! Everything - includin...
29/11/2025

We've sprinkled our Christmas magic and our Edward Hain Centre tree is ready to join their trail! Everything - including the tree - is of course repurposed.

Christmas "bouyballs" available from our online shop.

24/11/2025

Mini Spliced - our Dinky Digital Director 🤣 - made us a little promo post for our upcoming market day at Carbis Bay Estate Coastal Christmas Market...

The last of our stunning St Ives Silver rope has been used to make this beautiful floor mat and is heading off to its fo...
23/11/2025

The last of our stunning St Ives Silver rope has been used to make this beautiful floor mat and is heading off to its forever home just in time for Christmas.

Thank you for helping to and allowing us to give this Cornish rope a new lease of life with you.

60feet of rope saved from land fill or incineration.

A piece of Cornwall on its way. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊

Www.CornishSpliced.co.uk

23/11/2025

Every single "shinyball" labeled with it's "past life" and ready for our stall at Christmas Market on Sunday 14th December.

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas!

Cornish Spliced is proud to support St Eia FUNdraisers, donating £1 from every item bought in our online shop between th...
20/11/2025

Cornish Spliced is proud to support St Eia FUNdraisers, donating £1 from every item bought in our online shop between the 8th to the 12th December 2025.

Just browse our shop at www.CornishSpliced.co.uk and use this code in the message box at the checkout: StEiaSpliced

We are proud to support the Edward Hain Centre this Christmas by entering a Cornish Spliced tree into their trail from 8...
19/11/2025

We are proud to support the Edward Hain Centre this Christmas by entering a Cornish Spliced tree into their trail from 8th – 12th December 2025.

As you’ll expect, we intend to keep “on brand” with everything made from repurposed end of life fishing gear and/or ghost gear rescued during our beach cleans. Even our “tree” will be recycled!

Grandad's had his painting brush out and the rest of us have sprinkled our magic(?!).

Watch this space for photos coming soon.

Save the postage!...Collect your online shopping purchases from our stand on the 14th December and save the postage cost...
16/11/2025

Save the postage!...

Collect your online shopping purchases from our stand on the 14th December and save the postage cost.

Or DM us to order and you can collect and pay from our stall.

Plus you'll be able to browse our goodies AND we'll be able to meet you and say thank you in person 😊

CHRISTMAS MARKET ALERT! See you there???!!!...

As part of their grand finale day, we're joining Carbis Bay Estate's Coastal Christmas Market on Sunday 14th December, supporting Cornwall Air Ambulance.

We'd love to see you if you can make it that day. The youngest of our Splice family is excited about her debut appearance, so please do come and say hello! 🤣😍

We'll bring our dog leads and new "shiny balls", keyrings, “Buoybles”, wreaths, bowls and mats - spliced and handmade from repurposed ghost gear / retired fishing net rope and floats from around Cornwall and beyond.

Cornish Spliced's beautiful items are the perfect gift for life, not just for Christmas. AND they don't cost the earth - literally. Each item prevents "rubbish" from going to landfill, incineration or returning to the sea.

Some come and have a browse. We'd love to see you.

‼️NEW PRODUCT ALERT!‼️..Crochet Christmas Puddings! Do you like Christmas pudding? Some people love them with a huge dol...
12/11/2025

‼️NEW PRODUCT ALERT!‼️..Crochet Christmas Puddings!

Do you like Christmas pudding? Some people love them with a huge dollop of Rodda’s Cornish Clotted Cream, whilst others don't like "bits" (peel).

So we've made the perfect Christmas pudding to a-peel (sorry not sorry🤣) to everyone! Handmade from Granny Gin’s wool, we're repurposing her treasure trove into puddings that can be table decorations, baubles or adornments for your rope wreaths.

Both are now available in our shop and make the perfect Christmas gift.

They each come tagged with their “previous life story” and cost £9 each or £25 for three, plus postage.

Baubles here: https://cornishspliced.co.uk/product/crochet-christmas-pudding-baubles/

Table decorations here: https://cornishspliced.co.uk/product/crochet-christmas-pudding-table-decorations/

Or you can purchase them from our stall on the 14th December at Carbis Bay Estate Christmas Market to save on postage - although we may run out, so do contact us to pre-order.

CHRISTMAS MARKET ALERT! See you there???!!!...As part of their grand finale day, we're joining Carbis Bay Estate's Coast...
11/11/2025

CHRISTMAS MARKET ALERT! See you there???!!!...

As part of their grand finale day, we're joining Carbis Bay Estate's Coastal Christmas Market on Sunday 14th December, supporting Cornwall Air Ambulance.

We'd love to see you if you can make it that day. The youngest of our Splice family is excited about her debut appearance, so please do come and say hello! 🤣😍

We'll bring our dog leads and new "shiny balls", keyrings, “Buoybles”, wreaths, bowls and mats - spliced and handmade from repurposed ghost gear / retired fishing net rope and floats from around Cornwall and beyond.

Cornish Spliced's beautiful items are the perfect gift for life, not just for Christmas. AND they don't cost the earth - literally. Each item prevents "rubbish" from going to landfill, incineration or returning to the sea.

Some come and have a browse. We'd love to see you.

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St Ives
Cornwall

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