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Busy time at Swallow Studios
We are delighted to be involved in a few events happening this month in the run up to Christmas!
Winter Fair 2019
Liz is excited to have a stand at the Winter Fair in Bellurgan House in Dundalk. The Winter Fair run by Louth Craftmark and will have may local artists and crafters from the Louth/Monaghan/Meath area selling their work to the public. The fair is on November 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Follow the link to download free tickets for Winter Fair 2019.
Louth Craftmark Winter Fair, Belurgan Park Dundalk Nov 22 to 24 Mode Fashion Showcase
The team at Swallow Studios Annayalla are very excited about the upcoming ‘Mode’ Fashion Showcase. Mode is taking place in the Westenra Hotel, Monaghan town on November 27th at 7.30pm. The event is a chance for local Monaghan designer makers to showcase their products and designs. Liz shall be showing her fabulous hand-woven scarves. Liz has been hands on with the planning, along with Monaghan Local Enterprise Office and Women in Business. It will be an excellent opportunity for people to see the wealth of talent in County Monaghan. A time to plan some Christmas shopping for #GreenFriday on November 29th. It will be a taster of some beautifully crafted fashion textiles, that will be available the following week in ‘Designer Crafts at The Market House’ in the run up to Christmas in Monaghan.
‘Mode’ Fashion Showcase Nov 27th Westenra Monaghan House of Ireland Christmas Meet The Maker Event
Liz’s customer, the long established House of Ireland, 114 Grafton Street, is hosting a ‘Meet the Maker Christmas Event’. Liz is looking forward to demonstrating her skills in the shop on November 28th. At House of Ireland customers will have the chance to meet and talk with Liz. She will chat about how she hand-weaves her luxurious Monet inspired scarves and of course her ever popular LizzyC Sheep. We have been super busy in the studio too. Her retaillers have been stocking up on their LizzyC Sheep Christmas Decorations.
All in all, a super busy month ahead! And that is not even talking about our Swallow Studios Christmas Events…….and of course ‘Our Christmas Party’…shuuush
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Cleo Collaboration on The Belfast Scarf
Cleo Collaboration on The Belfast Scarf
When I first set up my business, in 1987, my first client was Mrs Joyce of Cleo Ltd. The wonderful Jimmy Hourihan introduced me to her and over three years I hand-wove bolts of fabric for her. This fabric design was based on Swedish lace threading and was woven with fine tweed woollen yarn. Subconsciously I had the lace-making heritage of Monaghan in my DNA. Combined with the beautiful fine tweed yarns, it resulted in a lovely lightweight tweed fabric used in suiting by Cleo’s much of which was for the Japanese market.
A photograph of two suits modelled by Frances Duff and Sonia Reynolds featured in the book ‘Cleo,’ written by Hillary O’Kelly. Unfortunately, the fabric was attributed to Crock-of-Gold weavers in Blackrock. Mrs Joyce sent me a copy of the book with a letter expressing her sadness at this error. While the mistake was disappointing, I was thrilled to see the picture of ‘my’ suits feature in the Cleo book. Mrs Joyce became a great friend and mentor over the years, so to be included was special.
There is something special about discovering some boxes of wonderful cotton and William Ross linen yarns, safely tucked away under other textile treasures. When Sarah Joyce of Cleo Ltd made the discovery, she contacted me to chat about what they might do with this lovely find. My eyes lit up when she opened that first box – inside were cones of the wonderful slubbed cotton and linen yarns she had used in the designs many years ago, which were sadly no longer in production. Sarah and I chatted about their design archive and what better way to be eco-conscious in this fast-paced world than to use these beautiful yarns to hand-weave a wonderful heritage scarf, a limited edition of scarves continuing to stand the test of time as they become heirlooms of the future.
And so ‘The Belfast Scarf’ is crafted in my hand-weaving studios along the border in Co. Monaghan, for Cleo’s emporium of Irish textiles, on Dublin’s Kildare Street.
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