they did it ....woooohoooo

[OC Richard]

Kernow bys vyken! (Cornwall for ever!)

Cornwall is further along in the process of Anglicisation which is currently also going on in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, so much so that some people question the notion of a Cornish identity.

There's an excellent book, The Last Of The Celts, which gives a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of affairs of the various surviving Celtic peoples, tying Celtic identity largely to language (which I think is appropriate). It makes for fascinating and sobering reading.

Here it is

http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/b...=9780300115352

I'll celebrate, perhaps, by binge-watching Doc Martin, shot in the lovely fishing village of Port Isaac. Here it is! Kernow teg!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD8wTVILBCM

I'm proud of my Cornish ancestry but I don't like the look of any of the Cornish tartans currently available. I spent quite a bit of time working on a tartan design which incorporates the St Piran flag and the Bezants (the gold circles upon the black shield). Here's what I think is my most successful design, and one I'd really like to have woven. I tried to give it a more 'tweedy' look, to distance it a bit from the way Scottish tartans typically look.