the studio
   
   
Smart Tart started life in a very tiny spare bedroom in a pink cottage in Pendeen, three miles from St Just. Moving into the big conservatory was fine for a while, but the trouble with recycling fabric is you have to buy it when you see it…
 

Renting a workshop did the trick for a year but soon even that was bursting at the seams, making the creative process even more chaotic than usual!
Suddenly in the spring of 2000 the answer presented itself, an old and enormous barn in St Just big enough to live and work in too. The building is shaped like a big piece of cheese and provides a fantastic spacious workshop in the middle of town where visitors can find us really easily. There is good wheelchair access as well as wooden steps!

     
 
It is amazing to see so much sumptuous fabric all in the same room. Years of collecting can be drooled over, squeezed and fondled and if you get really lucky you will stumble upon a sleeping cat. Blossom, the Smart Tart cat, is in her element chasing little bits and pieces around all day then disappearing into one of her numerous nests amongst the velvet for a long snooze - unless she is too busy out biting dogs of course!
   
 

If you fancy a colour filled and humorous visit to a unique workplace, you can find us in the most westerly town in Cornwall, St Just-in-Penwith. Find the Clock Tower, look over to Lloyds Bank and you will find us a little down the lane to the left.

Please contact us first if you are making a special journey, we may be out hunting down the next piece of velvet!

     
 
 
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Smart Tart
Blackbird Barn, Bank Square, St. Just, Cornwall
TR19 7HJ, UK.

phone: *44 (0)1736 787091
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