Rua Red’s annual open call is an opportunity for graduates, emerging and established artists living on the island of Ireland to submit their work to be shown as part of a group exhibition.
They welcome submissions across all art forms that respond to the theme—Red, as a colour and a concept.
“Red is a warning. It is also the colour of love, warmth, desire and energy. It is the colour of blood, heat, fire, intense passion and beauty. Red can signal danger, mark a boundary, demand attention or call us to action.”
Works do not need to use the colour red.
Exhibition Dates: 11th of December 2026—6th of February 2027
Image: ‘Right Here, Right Now’ Annual Open Exhibition 2025. Photo by @kevincollinsphoto
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Explore textiles and sustainability at the Textile Takeover at the Ulster Folk Museum. Shop vintage, learn how to repair clothes, watch weaving and spinning demonstrations, try embroidery and learn from fashion and textile experts.
Guild member Katarina Hruskova of Woolstore Ireland will be there to share about Irish wool.
Fibreshed Ireland will also be at the event, representing another part of Ireland’s growing textile and fibre community.
When: This Saturday, the 10th of October, 11 AM to 4 PM
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Take a jaunt along the Dun Laoghaire Charity Shop Trail and bring your treasures to Carnegie Library, where you’ll learn how to transform them to fit you!
Bring it along to The ReDiscovery Centre’s FREE Upcycle & Alteration Station at Carnegie Library as part of the Dun Laoghaire Charity Shop Trail.
When: Saturday, the 10th of October, from 11 AM to 4 PM. There are morning and afternoon sessions = 11 AM–1:30 PM and 1:30 PM–4 PM.
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Feltmakers Ireland member Niki Collier was recently featured on the Create Whimsy website.
“Niki Collier turns wool into bold, playful felt sculptures that invite us to look at difficult subjects in a new way. Her work grows from curiosity, life experiences, and a belief that making art can help us find light in dark places. Niki shares how felt became her medium, her creative journey, and why she wants everyone to have a chance to discover their own creativity.” – from Create Whimsy
If you are a member of Feltmakers Ireland, please let us know about your upcoming exhibitions, features, workshops and craft fairs. We’re interested in hearing what our members are up to and want to share relevant news with the wider guild community.
If you have something coming up that you think other members would enjoy or find useful, please send the details to us at feltmakersie@gmail.com
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Image is a composite of photos from the @Woman.in.Wool Instagram
The popular digital creator, knitter, and comic Hannah Civita of @woman.in.wool is seeking knitted, crocheted or FELTED green-coloured wool squares or rectangles made by women in the textile community. These will be sewn together as part of a larger project, a giant St Brigid’s Cloak.
The details:
The wool need not be Irish-raised, but it should be sheep fibre.
The square/rectangle should be a shade of green.
It can be knitted, crocheted, felted, or even embroidered!
The minimum size is 8″/20 cm by 8″/ 20 cm.
A female must be the maker of the square/rectangle.
Deadline: Sometime before the end of the year.
Please mail your green wool textile to the following address: OOH93917576, Gateway Student Village, Ballymun, Dublin D09 T9XZ
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The Midlands Fibre Festival is VERY soon! Want to join us?
Feltmakers Ireland is giving away two tickets, with two winners, each receiving one ticket. We will select the winners at random at 10 PM on Thursday, 8th of October 2026, and contact them via Instagram DM (direct message).
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We are again offering this popular technique improvement workshop, ‘Fine Felt’ for beginner and intermediate wet felters. It taught by guild member, artist, and tutor, Annika Berglund, and is recommended before taking our more advanced ‘Basic and Beyond Workshop’.
The course examines “Fine Felting,” which is traditionally desired in the craft of felting.
The class is a repeat of previous years’ Fine Felt Technical Workshops, but students are welcome to retake the workshop if they wish. Non-members are also welcome to register.
The Schedule
The class is composed of two parts: a Square 2D Sample and a Small 3D Vessel.
In the morning, beginner wet feltmakers will learn how to lay out wool using a flat 10-inch template and how to felt, full, and shrink. We will look at colour graduation and shrinkage rates.
During the morning session, more experienced feltmakers can focus on creating a very light, even layout using 10 grams of wool for a 10-inch square. We will look at how to get the densest, finest felt possible while working on creating a perfect square sample with a shrinkage of 30%, 40%, 50% or possibly 60%, depending on our speed of felting.
This may not be how we would do felting on an everyday basis. But this session spent truly concentrating on careful felting should improve our overall felting work.
Note:We will break for lunch. Please bring something to eat as we will only have 30 minutes. Tea and coffee will be provided. Bring a ‘travel mug’ to cut down on paper cup waste, and a baked good to share is always nice.
In the afternoon, we will apply what we learned in the morning to make the finest little vessel possible. We will use a different layout (spokes and wheel), laying out 10 grams of black and white wool around a 20 cm circular resist. The goal will be to create a very thin, fine vessel that is well-felted and sturdy.
Supplies
We will supply ALL wool and materials needed for the workshop.
Please bring TWO towels.
We will have spares, but if you have the following items, please bring them with you:
A bowl
A water sprinkling brauser or similar (optional as we will have spares)
Small sharp scissors
Ruler with inches AND centimetres
When: 10 AM to 4 PM. We will start at 10:00 on the dot as we have much to cover. Please arrive a few minutes early to get settled in.
Volunteers from Feltmakers Ireland will be sharing felting during the festival, and several of our members will be vendors.
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Interwoven Neighbourhoods is a project that catalyses local communities to plant, tend to, harvest, craft with, save seed, and learn from a patchwork of flax meadows that will support local biodiversity.
Their pilot programme will begin in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, and will be run for a year through a series of four seasonal workshops, or meitheals.
By collectively celebrating flax as a versatile crop that can easily be grown in many private and public gardens, Interwoven Neighbourhoods aims to weave together an active local network of neighbours, strengthening social cohesion across generations, social classes, and cultural backgrounds
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Save the Date: Longtime Feltmakers Ireland guild member, textile artist Mel Bradley will share her Textile Journey on Sunday, the 18th of October. Mel creates her work and runs workshops out of her studio, Gallery 13, which is in the Millmount Craft Quarter in Drogheda, Co Louth.
Mel paints silk scarves, wraps, and cowls; she also creates Nunofelted wearables. Recent workshops have included Gelli Plate Printing, Shibori Dyeing with Indigo, and Silk Painting.
When: Sunday, the 18th of October, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
If you can, please bring a home-baked good to share and a travel mug (to reduce our use of disposable cups).
To reduce the spread of illnesses, please refrain from coming if you feel unwell.
Zoom Access
Zoom access has yet to be confirmed. But we will aim to provide it.
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For ‘Textile Biennial 2027|Colonial Patterns‘, the Rijswijk Museum invites artists to reflect on the theme of Colonial patterns from the perspective of their own practice and perspective.
From the Open Call: “Colonial patterns are all around us; visible in the clothing we wear, the materials and fabrics we use, and the trade routes that have shaped our world. In motifs, traditions, and production processes, but also in power relations, memories, and identities.”
“Artists from all countries can submit a proposal.”
The exhibition takes place from the 8th of July to the 21st of November, 2027.
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