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Splicing handmade dog leads/toys & lifestyle products by repurposing discarded fishing/ghost gear. The more weird and wonderful the better!
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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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14/11/2024

Christmas float Buoyballs and Monkey fist Buoyballs travelling to their forever home’s 🌊

Order yours quick so will arrive in time for you to give out for a special pressie or for your own Christmas tree this year 🎄

Send us a message if show out of stock in our online shop and we will be able to help you.

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/buoyballs/

06/11/2024

It’s prize time again !!

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/product/small-traditional-wreath-st-ives/

Another section of the The South West Coast Path coves cleaned.

Polystyrene was this adventures treasures. 🏴‍☠️

It didn’t look to bad from the path looking down, but 40mins in we had to stop as just couldn’t carry any more.
We will be back! 🌊🌊🌊🌊

Guess the amount of bottles, rescued and recycled by this Saturday and win one of our Christmas Wreaths.

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03/11/2024

It's time to mention the C word... Christmas! 🎅🎄🌟

Whether you're looking for the perfect gift, or eco goodies for your at home, we have lots to choose from.

Wreaths, bunting, baubles... of all shapes and sizes, made from repurposed rope, rescued floats and ghost gear scooped off the beaches.

Sprinkle some Cornish Spliced on your loves ones this Christmas!

View our range on our online shop.
https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/christmas-decorations

03/11/2024

29/10/2024

Grandads been busy sprinkling some Cornish Spliced magic over some retired potting ropes from St Ives and some rescued ghost gear from Newlyn.

Perfect present for those who would love to help give these Cornish fishing ropes a new lease of life

We will be adding to our online shop
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Shortly or you can message above before it gets snapped up

🌊 £65 🌊

28/10/2024

🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊Guess in the comments below how many bottles we removed to win a prize.

We heard a lot of rubbish had been washed in and trapped on the South coast so we grabbed our friends and were off.

So so sad to see it laying around the cove but we had an adventure removing it all with a watchful eye on us from the sea 🦭 🦭 🦭 as we gathered it all together trying to make a difference.

It may only be a little difference but it’s a difference we would all like to try and make. 🌊

So many plastic bottles it was ridiculous!! and we’re guessing a lot more are still washing in.

We woukd like to help spread awareness of how our coastline and beaches and sea need a little helping hand to be tidied up and thought a little game and pressie from our shop with a value of up to £10 may help us do this.

Simply guess how many plastic bottles we collected from the cove and with help from our friends and
NCI Gwennap Head coastguards we managed to remove.

Along with a lot of other horrible polystyrene, tyres, barrels, builders foam and ghost gear.

First person who guessed correctly by Saturday wins a prize.

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27/10/2024

Thank you to all Our amazing friends for getting in touch and working with us to repurpose retired fishing gear and helping us to give it all a new lease of life.

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25/10/2024

Christmas 🎄 orders are picking up speed.

Weve had an order for a Prussia Cove ghost gear “Key Bowl” , these are very limited now as nearly all this ghost gear has been repurposed and given a new lease of life 🙌 so be quick if you love this colour rope as much as we have.

Monkeyfist Buoyballs /Keyrings are looking like a favourite again this year.

Grandads splicing his magic ✨ on some of these as we speak.

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/buoyballs/

If saying out of stock please just send us a message and we will help the best we can, we have new ropes and retired fishing gear on the way.

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12/10/2024

We love making our wreaths 🛟

Have you got yours ready for Christmas?

Get your orders in quick!

Our wreaths are made with retired fishing gear and ghost gear ropes found on our beach cleans.

Together we are making a difference and helping to save all these ropes from being sent to landfill or incineration. Thank you.

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06/10/2024

More of Grandads gorgeous mats are going into the online shop tomorrow.

Made from retired potting ropes, worked out of St Ives harbour. Repurposed and given a new lease of life

Prices start from £50

They make gorgeous Christmas presents. Get your orders in. 🌊

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01/09/2024

Thank you Fountain Cottage.

Another shout out for Cornish Spliced on - some pics of our lovely ghost gear items in situ, including the wreath we have at home, decorated for Christmas. 🌊❤️

30/08/2024

Thank you to all our friends who collect, donate, support and work together with us to save retired finish gear and ghost gear from being sent to landfill, incineration or returning to the sea.

Floats keyrings are next on the making list thanks to our friends
Lego Lost At Sea, Newlyn Harbour, Adventuring friends and Sailors Creek CIC.

Their donated rescued floats are having the Cornish Spliced magic 🪄 spread over them and more keyrings will be added to our online shop.

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The 2 Minute Foundation

26/08/2024

Another amazing coastal adventure and beach clean but it all got a bit too much at one one point.

So much rubbish and ghost gear all along the beach, we only managed half the stretch but others have been trying to make a difference too.

Thank you so much for the help of our friends collecting it and for the help of the RNLI
for removing all the rubbish we collected.

We are sprinkling Cornish Spliced magic to help give some of the rescued ghost gear a new lease of life saving it from being sent to landfill or incineration.

New Monkey fist keyrings have been added to our online shop, with your continued support we will be back and keep making that difference.
Thank you 🌊

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/keyrings/page/2/

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15/08/2024

We are proud to be working with you too Gwelmor Holiday Home, Cornwall

Thankyou for all your support 🐾

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10/08/2024

Another great section of the The South West Coast Path completed and great waterhole stop to pop in and say hi at the Life's A Beach Cafe at Maenporth Beach.

Life’s a beach cafe stock our Cornish Spliced keyrings which help save ghost gear from being sent to landfill or returning to the sea.

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08/08/2024

Lots of request for our bowls this week so lots of retired fishing gear being saved from landfill or from being washed back into the sea as we make them all.

Thank you for all your support.

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/rope-bowls/

04/08/2024

We’ve been beach cleaning and rescuing ghost gear today.
So many bottle tops, plastics, ghost gear and RUBBISH, it was very sad to see.

Thank you to our friends who helped to remove ALOT !

We have a beautiful Cornish Coastline please help keep it that way.

If take it to the beach please take it home with you, recycle or bin it.

This lot would have ended up back in the sea 🌊 tonight.

Cornish Spliced being sprinkled. 🪄
🐟 Sprat keyrings on there way to our online shop

https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/keyrings/

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St Ives
Cornwall

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http://www.CornishSpliced.co.uk/

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We’ve been beach cleaning and rescuing ghost gear today. So many bottle tops, plastics, ghost gear and RUBBISH, it was very sad to see. Thank you to our friends who helped to remove ALOT ! We have a beautiful Cornish Coastline please help keep it that way. If take it to the beach please take it home with you, recycle or bin it. This lot would have ended up back in the sea 🌊 tonight. Cornish Spliced being sprinkled. 🪄 🐟 Sprat keyrings on there way to our online shop https://cornishspliced.co.uk/shop/home-lifestyle/keyrings/ #MakingADifference #rePURPOSEDinCORNWALL

Good morning from our #littlecorner in Cornwall #Beachhug for Porthmeor ✅ Grade A asnormal. 0-5 bits of ghost grr or rubbish removed. The 2 Minute Foundation Keep Britain Tidy Kernow Weather Team NCIS Cornwall Heritage Trust

Thank you for posting your “Sea Hurler” adventures #rePURPOSEDinCORNWALL #vitaminsea #adventures

With the Spring tide yesterday, we had a little adventure down to the tidal cave and were delighted to find that there was no ghost gear or plastic in sight along the whole beach. So we awarded A*. It’s a beautiful walk from Carbis Bay to Porthkidney on a low tide, but check your tide times, as there is only about a half hour window to get around safely. We should have had plenty of time on a 0.2 low, but we had to be careful as the little runners were reaching the 🪨 rocks. Thank you NCIS for your daily tidal reports. #BeachHug #FloatToLive #WaterSafety BBC Spotlight More videos in comments below. ⬇️

OMGOODNESS!!! 2.5 days left to enter February #Strangestfind!!!!!!! Found something strange? Post in the comments of our STRANGEST FINDS POST pinned above to the top of our page and you could win a ‘Sprat’ Keyring and move forward to the Finale in December with our other months winners Weymouth & Portland Marine Litter Project CIC and Project Planet 🌎 to try and win a Traditional Wreath. The 2 Minute Foundation Keep Britain Tidy