On Friday, 21st November, Fibreshed Ireland will gather at The Richmond Education and Event Centre, Smithfield, from 10 AM to 4:30 PM to hear from a diverse range of growers and practitioners who work in line with Soil-to-Soil principles of circularity, compostability, and agroecology.

They are the following:

• Jennifer & Tristan Lienhard of @appleoakfibreworks
• Katarina Hruskova of @woolstoreireland (Katarina is a member of Feltmakers Ireland)
• @kathykirwan_theartofnature of the Flax 405 project
• Mary Ann Williams, editor of @textilesofireland
• Michelle McCabe, researcher exploring the connections between textile craft and wellbeing with ATU Sligo
• @ryankoenigstudio — 16th-century textile archaeology
• Sarah Babiker — Threads of Story: Woolcraft a Language & Memory between Ireland and the Arab World

On Saturday, there will be an open day of craft demonstrations, workshops, shopping opportunities, and community building at Richmond Barracks, Inchicore, from 10 AM to 3:30 PM. Admission to the demonstrations and shopping is free, but each workshop will be ticketed.

• Upcycling workshop with Eimear Greaney (@upsew.ie), from 10 AM to 12:00 PM
• Aran knitting with @ryankoenigstudio, from 10 AM to 12:00 PM
• Weaving Circle with Lucy Hyland (@ourselfcarerevolution), from 1 to 3 PM
• Movement session for crafters with @aideen.macken, from 3:30 – 4:10 (FREE, with optional donations to support Fibreshed Ireland’s work)

Dublin (different venues each day)
Optional social dinner in @fidelitydublin on Friday, the 22nd of November (book at checkout)

Discounts for students and Fibreshed Ireland members!

For more information and to reserve tickets, visit their website – https://fibreshedireland.ie/symposium-2025/

This event is part of Irish Design Week, partly funded by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. https://www.dcci.ie/whats-on/irish-design-week-2025/

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