We wanted to remind you that Feltmakers Ireland members’ exhibition, ‘Water and Flow’, has a submission deadline of Friday, the 13th of March at MIDNIGHT.
Our annual exhibition will be displayed at the beautiful Phoenix Park Visitors Centre gallery from Friday, the 3rd, through Sunday, the 26th of April. The show launches on Saturday, the 4th, at 3 PM.
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The exhibition ‘Dressing Dublin: Made in Blackrock‘ explores the former local textile industry, the people who worked in it and how it was influenced by national and international economic forces. The project showcases the small area around Brookfield Terrace and Carysfort Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin, which produced, until the 1980s, locally made textiles, hosiery, shirts, workwear, and much more.
The exhibition runs through Monday, the 9th of March.
If you cannot make it to the exhibition, you can learn more through Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/@DLRofficial
There is a 30-minute film, an audio tour and an extended interview hosted by fashion historian, Laura Fitzachary.
The 22-minute film has interviews with former employees, Liam Dodd and Christine Fitzachary, which captures this history before this part of our local heritage disappears. Through these conversations, we can also review the current state of the clothing industry in Ireland today.
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For this month’s Feltmakers Ireland activity, we will be Upcycling old garments with Needle Felted decorations.
Please bring an old wool jumper, scarf or hat that you can ‘renovate’ with needle felt. In addition to decorating, we will demonstrate how to mend holes using needle felting.
You will also need to bring your Needle Felting Kit, although we will try to have some extra felting needles on hand. We will also have our first aid kit on hand – just in case!
The Details:
When: Sunday, the 8th of March, 2026, 10:30 AM – 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).
And, as this is the season of coughs and sneezes, please refrain from coming if you feel unwell. We do have the benefit of technology – there will be access via Zoom. See below.
Zoom Access to the Sunday Session:
We will email a Zoom link to all members for those who wish to attend virtually. Please check your email on Friday afternoon.
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Guild member Sharon Wells will be on the television programme Ireland: AM on the 1st of March, Sunday at 10 AM. She will talk about European Wool Day 2026, which Ireland is hosting on the 28th of March in Tralee, Co Kerry.
She will also share her artwork and demonstrate needlefelting.
Sharon is one of the organisers of the European Wool Day conference, which will also have a joint exhibition of work from members of Feltmakers Ireland, the International Feltmakers Association, and the Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers. All of the artwork will incorporate Irish raised wool. There will also be a room with Interactive Wool Crafts.
Both the exhibition and the crafts are free to enter, and all ages are welcome.
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To get ready for European Wool Day, which will take place on the 28th of March in Tralee, Co Kerry, Fibreshed Ireland has organised a series of subsidised wool-related workshops around the island.
Workshops include the following:
From Farm to Fibre: the cycle of sheep’s wool production from birth to yarn, taught by Feltmakers Ireland member Christine Jordan of @roughcirclestudio, 7th of March, Co Carlow
Not just a Granny Square, 7th of March, Co Kerry
Aran Knitting Workshop, 8th of March, Co Galway
From Fleece to Fibre, 14th of March, Co Laois
Mindful Weaving Workshop, 14th of March, Co Dublin
Adapting Knitting Patterns for a Better Fit and Creative Changes, 14th of March, Co Dublin
Wool Spinning Workshop, 22nd of March, Co Antrim
Threads of Belonging: A day of Weaving, Connection and Care, 22nd of March, Co Waterford
The workshops have been made possible with support from the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.
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As part of Made in Wicklow’s ‘For the Love of Creativity’ series, Claire Garvey presents ‘From Canvas to Cloth’, an exhibition featuring 15 bespoke, hand-crafted, and hand-beaded pieces of wearable art. Each garment is inspired by one of Claire’s ten favourite paintings, with influences ranging from the bold strokes of Van Gogh and Miro to the intricate worlds of Botticelli and HR Giger.
Claire Garvey is a bespoke designer with a couture shop in the heart of Temple Bar, on Cow’s Lane, Dublin. She has designed for the Oscars, the Emmys, the X-Factor, and the Cannes Film Festival. She specialises in one-off outfits for musicians and celebrities and is a celebrated advocate for ‘slow fashion’ and sustainability, hand-making every piece in her workshop with a focus on recycled trims and exquisite craftsmanship.
When: The show runs through Sunday, 1st March, 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM. Free entry.
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Wool in School has a licensing opportunity: a Climate-Resource Information Pack that artists, educators, or businesses can share online.
The pack is free to download, print, and share with customers, clients, staff, families, schools, and community partners. Included is a workbook and ten activity sheets.
Why this matters for fashion and textiles:
Materials and product lifecycles sit at the heart of fashion’s climate impact on Sustainable Development Goals. These include the following: fibre choices, durability, repair, reuse, waste, land and biodiversity.
Climate strategies succeed when people understand these links. Giving children (and the adults around them) practical tools is one of the most credible “beyond the value chain” actions a fashion or textile business can take.
From fibre production to product lifespan and end-of-life, textiles connect to:
carbon impacts,
circularity and waste reduction,
biodiversity and land stewardship,
consumer behaviour and repair culture.
Supporting education in this space is a credible way to strengthen one’s climate narrative.
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There are several textile workshops on offer at the Senior Times’ 50 Plus Show, taking place in March at the RDS in Dublin. There are more 50 Plus Shows scheduled in other cities later in the year: Limerick, Sligo, Cork, and Galway.
Textile and Art Related Workshops
10:30 AM – Water Marbling (Arts & Crafts Stand). Turn your work on paper into a silk scarf with Asta Jackobson (Asta will also be holding further workshops on the Asta Fashions Stand)
10:30 AM – Weaving Workshop with Seamus Kirwan (Wool Experience Stand)
11:30 AM – Weaving Workshop with Seamus Kirwan (Wool Experience Stand)
12 PM – “Joyful Stitching” with Tamara Fiabane (Arts & Crafts Stand) A mixture of needle felting and embroidery to create a flat piece of art, which can be a sheep, a bee or something of your imagination.
1 PM – Painting Workshop with Dublin Art Classes (Arts & Crafts Stand). Take home a small original painting
Editor’s Note: The Registration is via a calendar app that isn’t as obvious as it could be. To find it, click on the Blue Circle Button (The Pink Arrow is for emphasis). See the images below to find where to click and what the registration form looks like.
Or you can contact the organisers by email to register: brian@slp.ie
Where to find the Blue Button to registerScreenshot of the Booking Form
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The Association of Textile Artists of Slovakia invites artists to participate in its 24th annual international juried exhibition of textile miniatures. There is a size limitation of 20 by 20 by 20 cm.
The theme of the exhibition is EMPATHY.
From the organisers:
“Empathy is an apparently natural human feeling – the ability to perceive another person in our surroundings and to enter into their experience of joyful as well as complex, even tragic, situations.
Empathy is not a given.
It does not arise automatically simply because we share the same space or follow the same news. It is a fragile state of attentiveness – the ability to momentarily withdraw from one’s own world and allow oneself to be affected by the experience of another. Without the need to judge, correct, or seek solutions.
At a time when suffering becomes a distant image and reality is reduced to rapid information, empathy slows us down. It compels us to stay. With a gaze, with a gesture, with silence. It is neither loud nor spectacular. It is inconspicuous, and precisely for that reason vulnerable. It requires the courage to remain open even where it would be easier to look away.”
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