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Stori'r Tir Dyffryn Peris
Working practice blog by Lindsey Colbourne, March 2019
I was sad as a child, when they filled in the sand quarry. Just up the road from our house, it was somehow separate from the world, and I loved it. Bulldozed flat, it turned into nothing but a boring, grassy field. So I laughed out loud with shock about 20 years later when I first saw Chwarel Dinorwig Quarry. It was love at first sight. The sheer scale and complexity of its holes, worked faces and tips, the colours and constructions resulting from the re-forming of an entire mountain. Brazen - yn blwmp ac yn blaen [which translates as “blurry and tight” on google translate, but I believe a better translation would be ‘bluntly, with no holds barred’: both seem good here]…
Blog by Marged Pendrell
The inspiration for this Cwrlyd Llechen came originally from seeing the ornate slate roofs of Normandy. I was aware of the ornate slate roofs of North Wales, but had not seen roofs on this scale (whole villages) and intricacy.
Being on holiday with my family (which included my son in law Kaz, a heritage slate roofer working in Blaenau Ffestiniog), meant that we spent a lot of time studying these roofs.
The intricate patterns of the overlapping slates and the way they were moulded to the overall roof shapes, made them look more like soft, carefully laid covers or patchwork quilts. There was a similarity in the repeated patterns that is inherent to both techniques.
Slate roofs with their origins in the quarries have always been associated with men whereas the quilt which has always had a domestic history is a skill always associated with women. Could these two skills be brought together?
“Welsh women are culturally invisible" - Diedre Beddow
Merched Chwarel really enjoyed the recent programme on Radio 4 (many thanks to Anna Jones for telling us of it!), in search of the voices of women in Wales, including contributions by Meredid Hopwood. We really recommend a listen! We particlarly liked the idea (based on the analysis of historian Diedre Beddow) that although stereotypes of Welsh women were used to police the roles of women, some women were able to work with them and reinvent them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0001mtr
As the radio 4 programme says, the male voice choir and male poets are well known in North Wales. But what of the women?…
Dewch i gwrdd â Merched Chwarel yng Ngerddi Capel Jerwsalem Dydd Sul (30/9) rhwng 12 - 4.30yp, cyfle i weld a trafod sut mae ein prosiect yn datblygu.
A oes ganddo’ch stori i rannu?
Hoffwn ddarganfod unrhyw straeon merched Bethesda, yn ogystal a hanes lleol o safbwynt y ferch. Croeso mawr i ddod ac unrhyw beth i dangos – mae popeth o ddiddordeb!