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Open Call: August Craft Month – (Un)Bound Exhibition CraftNI Gallery – Belfast

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CraftNI‘s August Craft Month 2025 exhibition is now accepting applications. Makers are invited to address the contexts of the open call below –

“Do you feel the tug of elements of tradition that are important to you in your craft? Is it the traditional techniques, in use for centuries, that you love to use in a contemporary way? Or is it the traditional values of crafts which are one of your drivers? Co-operation, place, community?

Perhaps you feel released from the bonds of tradition, your chosen discipline enabling you to pursue your ideas freely. Or perhaps you want to turn your creative focus inwards, towards the concept of binding and/or unbinding.”

Deadline for applying: Friday, the 27th of June.

For more information, visit the CraftNI website – https://craftni.org/august-craft-month-exhibition-2025-unbound/

Instagram @augustcraftmonth25 and @craft.ni

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Event: August Craft Month 2023

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August Craft Month returns to all of Ireland!

Feltmakers Ireland and several members are holding workshops and open studios this year.

Arranged in calendar order –

  • See textile demonstrations and exhibitions at the Textile Journey Festival in the Orangery of Marlay Park, Dublin, from the 31st of July through the 3rd of August. For more information, visit their website – https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/textile-journey-festival-tickets-630361607537
  • As part of ACM, visit Niki Collier is hosting an Open Studio in Marlay Park. Come and discover her womancave home to 50 scissors, 100kg of wool and 100 meters of silk. Saturday, the 5th of August, 10 AM – 4 PM. For more information, visit her website- https://www.nikicollier.com/
  • Con’s Creations Craft Shop has a creative workshop for needle felting a picture to create your own landscape in wool on the 5th of August. She also has a 3D felting, making toadstool, mice and little critters on Sunday, the 15th of August, in Castledermot, Co. Kildare.  Call for information, 087 2870971
  • As part of ACM, visit Juliane Gorman’s Open Studio in Dundrum, Co. Dublin, and see the tiny shed where she creates her whimsical hats. We’re going to make some felted rocks with Irish wool, too! Sunday, the 6th of August, 11 AM – 4 PM. For more information, visit her website- https://felthappiness.com/blogs/news/open-studio-make-a-felted-stone-august-craft-month
  • Interested in learning needle felting? As part of ACM, Jenni Kilgallon has three classes for adults and teens on the 11th at 3pm, the 17th at 5pm, and the 23rd at 11am. Located in Bray, Co. Wicklow, the classes are held in the bookshop Tales for Tadpoles. For more information, visit her website – https://talesfortadpoles.ie/collections/needle-felting-workshops.
  • More ACM Fun: Tamzen Lundy is running a Beginners Feltmaking Taster Session on Sunday, the 20th of August, from 1-4 PM at Brookwood Pottery in Marino Mar, Fairview Dublin. Only 4 places are available, at €60 each, all materials provided. Secure your spot on her website – https://www.tamzenlundydesigns.ie/services-1
  • Lastly, there is an Open Studio for Feltmakers Ireland on the 20th of August from 11 AM – 3 PM at the CIE/Sports Hall, Inchicore. At this family-friendly event, we will share how to felt a flower with Merino wool and also instruct how to do some intrepid felting with Irish-raised wool. Don’t miss the chance to browse or purchase our recently published book, ‘Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking’.

More Felt-Related Events

If you select ‘Textile Felt’ within ‘Craft Type’ of the August Craft Month website, there are three pages of Felting-Related events happening all over Ireland!

If you’re a Feltmakers Ireland member, let us know if we have missed your August Craft Month event.

For more information on ALL of the events, visit – https://augustcraftmonth.org/events-2023/