Tag: Sustainable Fashion

Of Interest: Restyle Cork – Sustainable Fashion Expo – Sunday, the 30th

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Restyle Cork will be the city’s first sustainable fashion expo, featuring Workshops, Panels, Fashion Show, Exhibitions, Demonstrations, Swap Shop, and Pop-ups.

ReStyle will be an all-day event that will incorporate the following:

  • Workshops
  • Demonstrations
  • Exhibitions
  • Clothes Swapping
  • Stalls/Vendors/Pop-Ups
  • Repair Cafe
  • Panel Discussions
  • A Fashion Show
  • Giving people the skills and inspiration they need to start being more conscious about sustainable fashion.

Bring clothes with you to repair, swap & upcycle.

When: Sunday, the 30th of November, 12 – 5 PM

Where: Cork College of FET Douglas Street Campus, Sawmill St, Ballintemple, Cork, T12 DW32

For more information and to book a place on the workshops, visit their Eventbrite page – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restyle-cork-tickets-1932675667949?

Their Instagram @restyle.cork

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Of Interest: Vote for Sarah Dowling – uses Galway Co-op Wool- Arts Thread Competition

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Arts Thread — an international online platform that showcases emerging talent in art and design — is hosting its annual Global Creative Graduate Showcase. Among the featured designers is Ireland’s Sarah Dowling, whose innovative work highlights the potential of sustainable, homegrown materials.

Designer Sarah Dowling has created traceable, carbon-free, biodegradable garments made from felted and crocheted Galway Wool and deadstock Irish linen.

Dowling’s work emphasises slow production and the beauty of the craft within the textile history in Ireland. One standout piece, her crochet jumper (Báinín Geansaí), includes a stitch which mimics the knitted Blackberry Aran stitch. This traditional stitch is the only one which cannot be replicated by a machine. Fittingly, crochet can only be done by hand.

Support Irish wool and design by voting for Sarah Dowling’s project on the Arts Thread website – https://www.artsthread.com/events/globalcreativegraduateshowcase/vote/fashion#/project/binn1

Note: You may need to search for her name to find her page.

Her Instagram: @sarah.dowling.design

@artsthread

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Event: Dutch Design Week – Wool (RE)Discovered

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A bit late, as it is happening NOW, but still of interest: Dutch Design Week has the theme of Wool (RE)Discovered!

The week-long event in Eindhoven, Netherlands, showcases wool’s regenerative potential and reimagines it as a dynamic, living material. From raw fleece in the hands of designers to workshops, demos, and mending sessions, and a variety of talks are scheduled throughout the week.

Dutch milliner and feltmaker Saar Snoek has a workshop on Thursday afternoon on how to felt a whimsical moustache: https://www.neworderoffashion.com/ddw-2025-program/workshop-make-your-own-moustache-using-alpaca-hair

There is a LIVESTREAM with discussions about wool here – https://www.neworderoffashion.com/wool-rediscovered-livestream

For more information about the week, visit the New Order of Fashion’s website – https://www.neworderoffashion.com/ddw-2025-program

Their Instagram @new_order_of_fashion

If you cannot attend in person, there’s an exciting video of the exhibition from visitor Elaine Markoutsas here – https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQBJUu5DXjE/?igsh=MXV1aDQ4cHB3bjQ5bw%3D%3D

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Of Interest: Upcoming ReStyle Cork Event

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Via our textile friends, Fibreshed Ireland: ReStyle Cork is looking for designers, craftspeople, traditional skills instructors, social entrepreneurs, and artists based in Cork who would like to be part of animating their flagship awareness-raising event for European Waste Reduction Week.

The event will include the following:

  • Workshops
  • Demonstrations
  • Exhibitions
  • Clothes Swapping
  • Stalls/Vendors
  • Repair Cafe
  • Panel Discussions
  • Fashion Show

For more information about getting involved, please contact Theo: 0838110769, theo@environmentalforum.ie


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Exhibition: The 7 Senses – Laoise Carey Master’s Project

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On Tuesday, the 24th of June, Laoise Carey will hold a one-day fashion and textiles pop-up exhibition and research project as part of her Masters in Circular by Design.

Drop into the gallery at National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Dublin between 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM to experience textiles with your 7 senses:

  • touch
  • taste
  • smell
  • hearing
  • sight
  • vestibular
  • proprioception

Interact with the exhibits and share your thoughts, responses, and inspirations to help determine whether immersive experiences of fashion and textiles promote a deeper sense of empathy between us, our textiles, and the people and places that make them.

Her Instagram: @laoisecarey

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Of Interest: Threads of Nature: Weaving Sustainability into Style – includes Talu Earth Natural Dyeing Workshop – Belfast

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Summer Solstice from the Brink! is a 10-day festival of culture, conversation, and workshops centred on the climate crisis. ‘Threads of Nature: Weaving Sustainability into Style’ on Tuesday, June 17th, has several events which may interest members and readers.

In the morning, there will be a panel talk on ‘Educating for a Regenerative Future for Textiles and Fashion’.

Natural dyer and Fibreshed Ireland founder Malú Colorín from Talú Earth is holding a workshop on transforming plants into textile colours. She will also give a talk in the afternoon.

Additionally, two other panels will be held in the afternoon to discuss regenerative farming for textiles and sustainable textile systems.

Where: Brink, Belfast Stories, Union St, Belfast BT1 2JG, United Kingdom

For more information, visit their website – https://www.playthinkbrink.com/tuesday-17th

Instagram @playthinkbrink

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Of Interest: Public Consultation on draft of National Policy Statement and Roadmap on Circular Textiles

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Policy Consultation on draft National Policy Statement and Roadmap on Circular Textiles

The Department of Environment, Climate, and Communications has released a draft consultation that the public can provide feedback on.

“The aim of this consultation is to seek views on a draft National Policy Statement and Roadmap on Circular Textiles. The document proposes the steps necessary for Ireland to achieve a circular economy in textiles.”

Submissions close: the 7th of July, 2025.

The draft Policy Statement and Roadmap, along with an executive summary, are available for download at the linked website below.

Submissions are welcome from organisations and individuals. They will consider all feedback before publishing the final version of the Statement and Roadmap. https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-the-environment-climate-and-communications/consultations/public-consultation-on-draft-national-policy-statement-and-roadmap-on-circular-textiles/

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Open Call: Wool in Regenerative Fashion – Dutch Design Week

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Every year, during Dutch Design Week—the biggest design event in Northern Europe—the New Order of Fashion (NOOF) presents a new generation of the most forward-thinking textile and fashion talents. For the 2025 Dutch Design Week (18-26 October), they will focus on the theme of regeneration, exemplified by a deep dive into wool’s material, environmental, and cultural workings. They seek designers who work across themes like biodiversity, community, ecology, animal well-being, indigenous knowledge, decolonisation & more-than-human design.

Deadline: Friday, the 20th of June, 23:59 CEST.

For more information – https://www.neworderoffashion.com/talents/open-call-2025

Their Instagram – @new_order_of_fashion

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Of Interest: Fashion and Farming Weekend – Kinsale 10th and 11th of May, 2025

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  • Fashion and Farming Conference in Kinsale

The inaugural Fashion & Farming Weekend unites the two worlds of fashion and farming to explore what we farm, wear and the earth we share.

Clothing is part of the fabric of life, and fashion is one of our primary sources of self-expression. Once inextricably linked, the farm-to-food-and-fabric cycle has been broken. The Fashion & Farming weekend will bring together creative minds, change makers and entrepreneurs where fresh ideas take root.

Galway Wool Co-op member Blátnaid Gallagher will speak on the 10th of May.

When: the 10th and 11th of May, 2025.

Where: Kinsale, Co Cork.

For more information and tickets, visit the Fashion and Farming website – https://www.fashionandfarming.com/

Their Instagram: @fashion.and.farming

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Of Interest: Online Screenings of ‘The Nettle Dress’

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Textile Artist Allan Brown’s Seven-Year Journey with Nettles: A Story of Love, Loss, and Craft. He spent seven years making a dress by hand solely from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. His work resulted in the documentary film ‘The Nettle Dress’, now available online until December 2nd.

This is ‘Hedgerow Couture’, the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine. It’s how he survives the death of his wife and finds a beautiful way to honour her.

The story of The Nettle Dress is lovingly captured in an award-winning documentary by filmmaker Dylan Howitt. Like the dress, the film is a labour of dedication, crafted with patience and care. This release includes an exclusive 30-minute pre-recorded Q&A session with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt, providing deeper insights into making the dress and the film.

‘The Nettle Dress’ has resonated deeply with audiences, becoming a grassroots sensation. Last year, it screened in over 250 UK cinemas and reached the top 10 documentaries in the UK box office. The film has also been featured at film festivals, sustainable fashion events, and textile gatherings, as well as in schools and universities. Its success reflects a growing interest in slower, greener approaches to fashion and filmmaking, celebrating practices that align with the rhythms of our planet.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit the website – https://www.nettledress.org/watch

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