Every September, Seam Collective, a contemporary textile collective in the Southwest UK, holds an online creative challenge to draw attention to textile artists. It is fun to see what other fibre artists share, and all are welcome to participate.
There are daily hashtags, along with #SeptTextileLove and #SeptTextileLove26
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Tickets are now available for the annual Flax Meitheal Harvest Celebration, on the weekend of 22rd-23st of August.
Fibreshed Ireland is once again partnering with Mallon Linen, Linen Workers CIC, and PlayThinkBrink to bring a weekend of presentations, panel discussions, craft demonstrations, a farm visit, music, and poetry.
Come learn about the history of linen production on this island, the present solutions & challenges, and help shape a regenerative, equitable and joyful flaxen future!
The event format combines a conference, a workshop, and a flax-harvesting party.
The first day in An Creagán will be more conference-style, with presentations and workshops throughout the day. It will finish with an evening of music, poetry, crafting, and craic. The second day in Mallon Linen will be a working day of harvesting flax.
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The Craggaunowen Culture, Craft & Textile Fair features local and national artists and craftspeople as they demonstrate age-old skills, including spinning and weaving, blacksmithing, leatherworking, basket weaving and felting. Amongst the artisans and crafters, two of Feltmakers Ireland’s members will be sharing their work: Katarina Hruskova of Woolstore Ireland and Sandra Marschall. Guild friends, Malú Colorín and the Irish Guild of Weavers, Spinners, and Dyers, will also be there!
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SHEARFEST 2026 welcomes the Provincial Sheep Shearing Championships to Mountbellew, Co. Galway, for an unforgettable weekend of skill, excitement, and family fun.
In addition to the shearing, there will be sheepdog demonstrations, Irish dancing, a craft village, trade stands, the Queen of the Wool competition, pony rides, food trucks, alpaca walks, bouncy castles, children’s amusements, the Irish Wool Experience, a Fashion Show, an animal petting zoo, face painting, an interactive magic show, cookery demonstrations, and pedigree and rare sheep exhibits.
Feltmakers Ireland guild member Linda Costello of @galwaylambs is helping to organise a fashion show and display of wearables made with Irish Wool. If you are interested in getting involved, contact her directly on Instagram.
When: Bank Holiday Weekend – the 30th and 31st of May, 20206
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On Sunday, the 10th of May, Dublin will once again tip its hat to one of the most charming international gatherings of the year.
The World Hat Walk returns for its third annual celebration, and this will be Dublin’s third year joining cities around the globe in taking part. What began as an idea in London has grown into a worldwide event, with more than 100 cities across over 30 countries preparing to step out in style.
The only requirement is simple: wear a hat.
It can be hand felted, sewn, inherited, borrowed, handmade, or bought that very morning. Grand or understated, dramatic or whimsical: every hat is welcome. The spirit of the day is simply to celebrate creativity, individuality, and the quiet delight of seeing a park full of people who decided that ‘naked heads’ would not do.
This year’s Dublin Hat Walk will also include a few friendly hat competitions, kindly judged by artist and illustrator Louise Boughton.
Categories:
Most Fun Hat
Most Elegant Hat
Most Irish Hat
Largest Hat
Smallest Hat
And perhaps a few surprise categories!
When: Sunday, the 10th of May
Where: Meet at Fusiliers’ Arch, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, D02 HX65 at 2 PM. At around 2:15, we will proceed to the centre of the park. Afterwards, if there is interest, we may gather at Peaches, located on the northeast corner of the park.
There is something wonderfully old-fashioned and unexpectedly joyful about a Hat Walk. It asks very little, but a stroll transforms an ordinary Sunday afternoon into something memorable. A hat becomes an invitation to conversation, to laughter, and to the kind of happy shared spectacle that we all could use a little bit more of in our lives.
The logistics of these various city walks have been gracefully organised by milliner Tatiana Ashakova of Beretkah – https://beretkah.co.uk/world-hat-walk
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Join us for the European Wool Experience — a free public event celebrating wool, creativity and craftsmanship on Saturday, the 28th of March at the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, Co Kerry.
Feltmakers Ireland will be taking part in European Wool Experience 2026. If you’ve been hoping to pick up a copy of our book Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking, we will have copies available on the day.
Our volunteers will also be demonstrating feltmaking techniques, and visitors will have the opportunity to join a hands-on wet felting activity using Irish-raised wool from Ériu and WoolStore Ireland.
The wool used for these activities has been partially funded by the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland.
The European Wool Experience will be a unique day, where wool comes to life through hands-on demonstrations, exhibitions, research displays and interactive experiences from makers, artists, educators and innovators across Ireland and 10+ European countries.
Whether you’re discovering wool for the first time, visiting with family and friends, or already passionate about fibre crafts, this is a wonderful opportunity to see traditional skills alongside contemporary practices — and experience the incredible versatility of this natural material.
Meet makers
Watch live 35+ demonstrations
Explore exhibitions and displays
Try wool crafts like felting, weaving, spinning and much more in a welcoming, relaxed environment
Drop in anytime — admission is completely free, and everyone is welcome!
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The European Wool Experience, a vibrant, free, family-friendly event, will be at the Meadowlands Hotel, Tralee, on Saturday, 28 March 2026, from 10 AM–5 PM.
Celebrating Ireland’s hosting of ‘European Wool Day 2026’, this special public event, open to all, brings together exhibitors, makers and researchers from Ireland and more than 10 European countries, to connect and create a colourful, welcoming day of creativity, culture, and discovery.
Taking place at the start of the Easter school holidays, it’s an ideal day out for families, friends, individuals or organised groups looking for something creative and different.
Visitors can explore four rooms featuring over 35 demonstrations, exhibitions and interactive experiences, with plenty of opportunities to try wool crafts firsthand, including the following: wet felting, finger knitting, crios belt weaving, spinning, weaving, wool processing and more. Meet skilled makers, discover traditional and contemporary skills, view unique heritage displays, and enjoy a relaxed, hands-on atmosphere suitable for children and adults alike.
Throughout the day, volunteers from Feltmakers Ireland will demonstrate feltmaking, and we will also lead interactive wet felting activities.
In addition to the guild, several members will be sharing their artwork and fibres. These include the following:
The guild is grateful to have received some funding from the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland. This helped us purchase Irish-raised wool from Ériu and WoolstoreIE, which members could use in their pieces.
Drop in to the European Wool Experience for an hour or stay and explore at your own pace; admission is completely free.
Groups of 10 or more can book in advance via ewd@ewe.network (subject: Group Visit).
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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 Irish Grown Wool Council and Sharon Wells are excited to announce that Ireland has been selected as the host country for European Wool Day 2026!
Bringing together sheep farmers, designers, makers, researchers, crafters, educators, practitioners and those with a general interest in wool from across the island of Ireland and Europe to celebrate wool’s role in sustainability, circular economies and cultural heritage.
Co-hosts & Sponsor: Many thanks to the co-hosts, the European Wool Exchange Foundation, Circular Bioeconomy Cluster, Centre for Applied Bioscience Research (CABR), and sponsors, including FutureIslandIsland, and REVEIRE
Additional sponsorship opportunities are available.
Join in celebrating wool, connection, and collaboration at #EWD26 in Co Tralee, Ireland.
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Jennifer Lienhard of Apple Oak Fibre Works will teach a year-long online course in natural dyeing – a guided, in-depth journey into the science, craft, and history of colour.
The program consists of the following-
12 learning modules released monthly via a private course platform
Live Zoom calls, Q&A, and portfolio building
Live calls are scheduled twice a day to accommodate students in different time zones. Recordings available after every session
Optional in-person intensives and gardening session in August
Deep dives into fibres, tannins, mordanting, lasting colours, indigo fermentation vats and sustainability
Build a professional portfolio and creative direction for your own studio
Course certificate upon completion of the portfolio work
The course starts on the 13th of January 2026.
Monthly topics
January — Fibres and their differences
February — Mordanting
March — Tannins
April — Creating blues
May — Creating yellows
June — Creating reds
July — Creating purples
August — Secondary colours & modifiers
September — Lake making and related processes
October — Printing and advanced techniques
November — Industry standards & personal project
December — Final projects & presentations
Irish residents: receive 40% discount via the National Organic Training Skillnet (NOTS) funding (includes materials).
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