Event: Celebrating Handmade – Craft Market and Demonstrations – Enniskerry – Co Wicklow

The Wicklow Craft Foundation is holding a craft market this weekend featuring ceramics, glass, textiles, leather, wire sculptures, and bookmarking. Miriam Brady will be there with her felted artwork, and she and some of the other makers will demonstrate their craft.

Where: The Schoolhouse for Art, Enniskerry Village, Co Wicklow.
Date: Saturday and Sunday, 17th and 18th of August 2024
Time: 10 AM- 4:30 PM

This event is part of August Craft Month, a celebration of craft organised by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland and Craft NI. August Craft Month is an all-Ireland event with over 400 activities.

For more information about the Wicklow Craft Foundation, visit their website – https://wicklowcraftfoundation.ie/about

To search for more events, visit the August Craft Month website – https://augustcraftmonth.org/events/

Correction: Miriam Brady will be unable to attend the event due to a death in the family. Our thoughts are with her. Other makers will be holding demonstrations.

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Event: Landscape Felting, Spinning, and Dyeing Demos by Sharon Wells

On the 19th and 20th of August, The Wicklow Craft Foundation (WCF) has an inaugural event which includes an exhibition comprised of multiple craft disciplines. It is taking place at The Schoolhouse for Art in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow.

In addition, craftspeople will be on-site to demonstrate their skills and share their expertise.

Feltmakers Ireland member Sharon Wells will demonstrate landscape felting, spinning, and dyeing.  She will have samples of many types of Irish wool fibre from sheep farms all over Ireland. You can see Galway, Cheviot, Wensleydale, Jacobs, Welsh mule, Kerry Hill, Charollais, Shetland, Zwartbles or Valais samples. She will discuss their uses in felting and/or spinning. Some are for sale on the day. 

Demonstrations will be live-streamed via the WCF website for those who cannot attend in person. For further information and access to the live-stream, please visit http://www.wicklowcraftfoundation.ie 

For more information, visit the August Craft Month website – https://augustcraftmonth.org/augustcraftmonth2023/2-day-craft-exhibition/