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 Wool Queen Blanket, Travel Rug & Yarn

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

Bodacious in Front of the Aga

First the sheep are shorn

Zwartbles Being Shorn

Zwartbles Being Shorn

Wool all cleaned

Zwartbles Wool Cleaning

Zwartbles Wool Cleaning

Carded

Zwartbles Wool Being Carded

Zwartbles Wool Being Carded

Spun

Zwartbles Yarn on Bobbins being Changed on the Spinning Mule

Zwartbles Yarn on Bobbins being Changed on the Spinning Mule

And Finally Woven

Zwartbles Blanket Being Woven

Zwartbles Blanket Being Woven

at the wonderful Cushendale Woollen Mills in Graig-na-managh, County Kilkenny.

Cushendale's Spinning Mule

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

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

A Zwartbles Ewe Introduces the Lambs to Yarn Spun from Their Mother’s Fleeces

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