We’ve been selling our Zwartbles wool Blankets for 8 weeks and now they’re going to The London Design Festival September 14 – 22 2013 to help represent some of Ireland’s own designs!!
Zwartbles Ireland’s 100% Irish Wool: Queen Blanket, Travel Rug & Yarn
An idea hatched in a kitchen warmed by an Aga during long winter nights.
Bodacious in Front of the Aga
First the sheep are shorn
Zwartbles Being Shorn
Wool all cleaned
Zwartbles Wool Cleaning
Carded
Zwartbles Wool Being Carded
Spun
Zwartbles Yarn on Bobbins being Changed on the Spinning Mule
And Finally Woven
Zwartbles Blanket Being Woven
at the wonderful Cushendale Woollen Mills in Graig-na-managh, County Kilkenny.
Cushendale’s Spinning Mule
From small green fields all across Ireland Zwartbles wool collected and transformed into a product that is now going to The London Design Festival a strange but wonderful farm life.
A Zwartbles Sheep Transfixed by Her Fleece Transformed into a Blanket
Our knitting yarn is pure Irish Zwartbles wool and spun from their wonderful dark chocolate brown fleece.
A Zwartbles Ewe Introduces the Lambs to Yarn Spun from Their Mother’s Fleeces
Hi Suzanna
I am coming to see you on Friday morning and looking forward to it. Plan to be with you around 10.00 / 10.30. I have mislaid your mobile number. So sorry and wondered if you could send it to me. Also I just wondered if you could send me that lovely photo of your sheep having a look at blankets in basket and one of blankets being woven. I would really like to feature images in my forthcoming newsletter. Thanks so much. Emma (I am of Ireland)
Great see you then I will text you so you have my number. Yes I will send you those photographs.
Hi, Where in Ireland are you? Do you allow visitors? Thank you
Our farm is in County Kilkenny. Yes we do except visitors but by appointment only.