Boolavogue Textile Studio have a Toika floor loom for sale 120cm weaving width, 8 shaft underslung beater with 25 and 40 dent reed, assorted shuttles and 2 metal stretchers 40-60cm and 80-130cm and polyester cord sets. Price Euro 750. Loom has been sold, follow us and catch the next one!  Read more

Thanks so much to member Melodi for this guest post. One for our archives, definitely! If you would like to guest blog for the Guild, just email hello@weavespindye.ie.  We moved here about 19 years ago and I had already been spinning for over a decade and brought my wheel from the US.  I was spinning… Read more

This is the final part in our series on the history of spinning in Ireland. Many thanks to Guild Member Elizabeth O’Connor for her original research and her generosity in sharing this with us. By 1839, a French visitor to Ireland, Gustave de Beaumont, was able to write: In all countries, more or less, paupers… Read more

Thank you once again to guild member Elizabeth O’Connor for writing this special blog series for us. Tune in for Part Three next week. You can leave any questions you have as a comment on the post, or email hello@weavespindye.ie. Basically, yes, the Irish used spindles and later, spinning-wheels; three types of wheels were seen… Read more

The Guild is delighted to host a new series of guest posts on the subject of the history of spinning in Ireland, by Guild member Elizabeth O’Connor. Tune in each week for the next month for the next instalment. Thank you so much Liz for sharing your research with us, and for writing it with… Read more