Need a unique and thoughtful gift? Well look no further.
We house a range of high quality, beautiful stock from local artists and artisans including pottery, wood turning, art, Jewellery, cards, baby and childrens clothes.
We have an in-house loom called Alan who helps make rugs and scarves and a Victorian sock machine called Matilda, pop in for a demonstration any time.
We offer a range delicious smelling range of bathroom beauty products such as solid shampoo and conditioner bars, bath bombs and melts.
To top it off we offer free simple gift wrapping and a smile.
We are part shop, part gallery and part workshop and all are welcome to pop in for a chat and a look any time.
Wiveliscombe Tartan
Whilst making coffee for a well deserved break one afternoon in the shop we were having a discussion about how lovely the Wivey community is. We heard some lovely stories of neighbours old an new showing up for eachother and helping eachother out. My mother, Kerry, was finishing of a wonderfully soft stretchy shawl on Alan, her loom. She said "Wivey is a bit like a clan." Clackety clack goes Alan. Then a light bulb moment, "Wivey should have a tartan!"
After some discussion we decided we needed to get the community involed and so we put a poll of colours on facebook and on a shelf in the shop and we asked everyone to pick their favourite 4 colours. We had a fantastic response to this, with many people sharing their reasons for choosing colours such as blue for Wivey swimming pool, burgandy red for the colour of the soil, yellow for hops as Wivey is a brewing town and green for the countryside.
After announcing the top four colours Kerry very cleverly created a unique "Wivey Tartan."
We love it and we hope everyone else does too. It is a tribute to the Wivey community and will be registered to the people of Wiveliscombe.
We have been overwhelmed with the support and interest this project and we are working hard to create a selection of gorgeous and unique Wivey tartan products to add to our online shop in the next few weeks.
We now have a Wiveliscombe Tartan in the Wild page on facebook, check it out and feel free to add any photos you have of Wiveliscombe tartan.
Lets Heal The World
How we can help our planet
As well as promoting a plastic free life we wanted to go a bit further here at Secret Island and we decided to start collecting old clothes, sheets, towels,materials or textiles that can not be resold and would otherwise be going to the rubbish dump. Around 92 million tonnes of textile waste is created annually by the fashion industry. We thought we could save some of that from going to waste by weaving rag rugs and reusing for crafts.
10%Off Voucher
Bring in a large carrier bag full of old clothes/materials/textiles and recieve a 10% Off gift voucher to spend at Secret Island.
Zero Waste RagRugs
Don't want to add more waste to the planet? Bring in a carrier bag or 2 of your old clothes/sheets/materials and we can make them into a ragrug with our in house loom.
