FROM woodturning to walking sticks, spinning to sugar craft, there is something for everyone at Princetown's sixth Moorland Exhibition this week.
The exhibition is held in the Primary School, and in addition to a host of beautiful and unusual rural crafts exhibits, workshops are being taken each day by local experts.
For example, on Monday, visitors could learn the art of silk and felt paper making with Rosemarie Smith.
Tuesday was the day to make paper and dye it, using plant dyes produced from gardens and hedgerows.
Today (Thursday) is elephant day, when this noble animal is used as inspiration for appliqué, embroidery and shisha work, guided by Stef Francis.
Workshops for the remainder of the exhibition, which finishes on Sunday, include stumpwork and needlelace, leather-look book bindings and embroidered landscapes.
Organiser of the Exhibition is Princetown resident Audrey Vigni.
Audrey said: 'It's going very well — we've had a pleasing number of visitors and we've only been going three days.'
Audrey said although the organisers have said goodbye to some exhibitors this year, eight new recruits have taken their place, including a 'needlewoman of renown', Sarah Perry.
'Her work is stunning, it's unbelieveable. It's all in 3-D — she embroiders her pictures with just one thread at a time, so that the fur or feathers look real,' said Audrey.
The exhibition is non-profit making so no commission is paid by exhibitors, but Audrey said judging from the smiles on people's faces, plenty of visitors are snapping up some original and beautiful pieces of work.
She said: 'We've had one coach party of 22 from right down in Cornwall. People are coming in numbers from right across the West Country.
'A lot of the workshop classes are full too. I think after six years we're getting the hang of it now.
'We're well pleased — we're having a ball!'



