We at Garthenor love to welcome new friends, make new connections and enjoy visitors to our Mill in Cardigan. Recently we had the opportunity to meet and greet visitors from Austria; offering a show and tell of our process at Garthenor, sharing our ethos and values face to face, working our machines, and opening our mill shop for some shopping.
The Ladies and Gentlemen on the tour were from all over Germany and Austria and were visiting West Wales, and we were delighted they chose Garthenor for one of their places to visit.
We discussed fibre and yarn, the clipping of fleece, color theory, to dye or not to dye, which of our yarns might make the best project and everything in between. What is not to love about yarn stories with other knitters, crocheters and fibre folk. It was bliss.
We do have a small confession, we spoke in English; collectively our German and Austrian was not up to scratch, however, our guests were happy to exchange words and phrases with us to enable a blossoming community language where there are no limits. One visitor stated that she 'could feel the love we had for our work, and this made her feel the love too', and this is what Garthenor Organic stands for, this is what our Transparency Tuesdays are all about, this is the platform that we build our blog upon.
We want to invite you all to visit any of our platforms and share your story with us, or get in touch to come visit us in Cardigan, we would love to host you.
