23/11/2009 by IDS
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Although the weather has been anything but festive and our roof continues to leak, we are feeling all warm and fuzzy as Christmas approaches.
To kick off the season in style, Irish design shop are hosting a one day event on the 3rd of December when all stock will be discounted by 20%! With the added temptation of Christmas nibbles and drinks, there is no excuse to miss this one off event.
To ensure our little shop is full to the brim with all manner of lovely stuff, new stock has been arriving from Lisnavagh, Farrell & Chase, Heather Finn and Angela Cuthill. We are also delighted to welcome new designers to the flock including; 'wedge' furniture design, who produce super snazzy…
For those of us who studied 'Silas Marner' for the leaving, weaving often conjures up images of a lone craft worker, weaving in fingerless gloves by candlelight. Well, things have changed since the dark days of Silas Marner and the good people of 'Shuttleknit' are testament to the progression weaving has made in terms of design and skill.
On one lovely day in October, we headed to Wicklow to visit the Shuttleknit studio and workshop which is located just outside Wicklow town. We were welcomed by Mella, who manages sales and production for this unique company which combines the skills of travellers and settled persons to produce a range of knitted and woven products.
The workshop is…
From the second to the ninth of November we celebrated design week with a host of activities at Irish Design shop…
Design week got under way at Irish design shop with the installation of a fantastic window display courtesy of Gearoid Muldowney from Superfolk in order to entice passers by down the lane way. Gearoid also donated some of his handmade stools for our temporary cinema screening the classic ‘hands’ series on Irish crafts. These proved to be very popular and as a result, we will be stocking them in the near future. The ‘Hands’ series is also now available as a box set or individually through the shop. The set of 37 episodes costs 150 euro and individual episodes cost 25 euro each.
