Category: Traditional Crafts
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Donegal Tweed – A Timeless Fashion Classic
“For over a century, the village of Ardara was at the forefront of the production of handwoven Donegal Tweeds. A building known as “The Mart” was the central marketplace with all the local tweed produced, inspected, stored and sold inside its walls. Photograph courtesy of Triona Design However, in the sixties, the arrival of modern…
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St Brigid’s Cross Making
St Brigid’s Day is traditionally celebrated on 1 February, which is also considered the first day of spring here in Ireland, also known as Imbolc. History Brigid was born in 451 AD, and was destined to become a nun and an abbess. She founded several convents, the most famous at Kildare, on the site of a shrine…
Watching the Daisies 