Shops like Cream Cornwall are something of a rare sight these days.

Quality products hand-made by a network of local crafters and sewers are on offer at the flagship Falmouth branch as well as shops in St Ives and Truro.

Cream Cornwall was founded in 2012 by Rebecca Heane and Allison Pantoneview, who, with their combined textiles expertise, started making things that they would have liked to be able to buy on holiday themselves.

Since then, the brand has expanded and now employs local sewers in both Penryn and Falmouth as well as crafters from Helston and a full time lampshade-maker who works out of an office above the Falmouth store.

Rebecca spoke to the Packet about the ethos behind Cream Cornwall.

She said: "We're a local business, and we like to use local people as much as we can. It's very rewarding.

"I think it's really nice when people come in the shop and they don't realise that what we do. A lot of it is so local, for example they're amazed when they want a particular lampshade and we're like 'ok, we'll just make it for you,' and they just can't believe that something is actually made on the premises.

"Because we don't make any more here, you know? There's crafters and there's small designer/makers, but on a larger scale it's very hard to find places that make things. That's why we make our lampshades, because there's nowhere commercially that makes lampshades, that I know of."

She went on to say: "We know that what we send out is tip-top quality, we don't have to inspect a delivery when they come in, we don't have to reject anything, it's all perfect and I know that when I go and pick up a batch of work from my sewer it's spot on.

"They are fastidious about it and that's really nice, so although it is a lot of work to organise, what we're getting at the end of it is a product that we don't have any wastage of, it's all perfectly made ready to go."

Find out more about Cream Cornwall at creamcornwall.co.uk.