The Wise Wool Project will be at Discover Derrynane the weekend of the 7th through the 8th of June. Visit their table to learn about the current Irish wool dilemma and enjoy wet and needle felting with Irish wool.
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The Wise Wool Project will celebrate Irish Wool at Kate Kearneys Cottage in the Gap of Dunloe, Co Kerry, on Saturday, the 9th of November, from 11 AM onwards.
The event will include workshops, demonstrations, storytelling, screenings, discussion panels, and music, celebrating the Wise Wool Project and its culmination.
Join in on the celebrations, which will bring together local fibre artists, sheep farmers, and the wider community to better understand how to create something from this valuable resource. This is a unique event for those interested in creating a solution to the current wool waste dilemma.
Bookings are required for two of the events (which are free).See below for links.
The Wet Felting Workshop with Irish Wool for ages 6+ from 11 AM to 12 PM.
The film screening of ‘Notes from Sheepland’at 3 PM.
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Several wool-related events are scheduled for this year’s Dingle Food Festival.
The Irish Grown Wool Council will participate in the Wool Marquee at the Dingle Food Festival this Saturday and Sunday.
In addition, Wool in School will share its ‘Feirm VR’, their agricultural virtual reality program that enables viewers to understand the importance of wool and shearing in relation to sustainable farming practices.
The virtual reality experience of ‘Future Tapestry‘ will also be shown. It is an artistic response to Irish wool production’s history, legacy, and contemporary currency, developed following a research period with sheep farmers who harvest wool. The work is directed and produced by artist John Conway, with a virtual reality experience by Nóho. It is structured around an ode written and performed by theatre maker Aisling Byrne – a verbatim text based on her engagement and conversations with Kildare Sheep Farmers.
On Saturday and Sunday, panel discussions will be at 2 PM.
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Over four days, the Festival of Wool and Cloth will offer workshops and talks on knitting, weaving, spinning, wet felting, needle felting, eco printing, craftivism, and more.
Feltmakers Ireland Guild member Sharon Wells is teaching a taster needlefelting workshop on Friday, the 5th July. Sharon will be working from photographs by local photographer Alice Dennehy.
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The Wise Wool Project in Co Kerry, Ireland, facilitates workshops to educate the public on wool waste in Ireland. They will be at the K-Fest Arts Festival in Killorgan, where they will host workshops and have an exhibit this weekend for the June Bank Holiday.
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The Irish Grown Wool Council, established in April 2023, will be hosting a marquee at the Dingle Food Festival this Saturday, the 30th and Sunday the 1st, in association with local Primary Producer Farmers.
They would like a member of Feltmakers Ireland to demonstrate feltmaking to the Food Festival’s visitors. They will also be selling copies of the Guild’s recently published book, ‘Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking’. {See the bottom of this post for contact details}.
The Irish Grown Wool Council’s VISION is: “Bringing Wool stakeholders across the Island of Ireland together to realise the potential of wool as a natural, sustainable and versatile material, by building on its rich heritage, enhancing understanding and appreciation of the characteristics of Irish Grown Wool, facilitating collaboration in product/market research and ultimately applying innovative product solutions to address current challenges and create future opportunities.”
The Wool Council will have various displays on wool products ranging from beautiful textiles handcrafted by local artists, right through to Wool Insulation, which is made using waste wool as part of our circular bio-economy drive under our sustainability slogan – “Waste is a resource in the correct hands”.
The Dingle Hub, represented by Dinny Galvin, will be doing a display and talk on how, if we had a Biodigester on the Dingle Peninsula or elsewhere in Kerry Irish wool could be scoured locally at scale. Wastewater from washing could be a valuable feedstock for the Biodigester. The UCC team investigating the use of wastewater from a mooted local scouring plant in a biodigester will also attend.
If you are in Dingle for the food festival, call in at the marquee to see our products and meet the makers. Stay for a discussion on how we may develop the wool industry and hopefully get farmers a better price for our wool.
The marquee (stall 56), is based in Orchard Lane, beside Jerry Kennedy Butchers.
For and on behalf of the Irish Grown Wool Council,
