Description
The talk explored the research and development through the Future Island-Island project around the Rathlin Blackface wool and how the project has produced a range of products from what was originally a category 3 waste product. The Ulster Folk Museum's Textile Takeover is an annual event celebrating sustainable fashion, traditional crafts, and textile heritage with workshops, talks, and stalls featuring vintage sellers, designers, and experts in skills like mending, spinning, and natural dyeing, connecting historical practices with contemporary creativity. It offers hands-on learning, vintage shopping, and insights into how people valued and reused fabrics in the past, drawing on the museum's extensive textile collections.| Period | 11 Oct 2026 |
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| Held at | Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Northern Ireland |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- wool
- Future Island-Island
- Heritage Crafts
- knitting
- felting
- crochet
Related content
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Research output
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Future Observatory: Tools for Transition: Future Island-Island Green Transition Ecosystem
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Future Island-Island Impact Cards: Rathlin Wool Rope
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Future Island-Island Impact Cards: Colours of Rathlin
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Colours of Rathlin: Colour Palette
Research output: Non-textual form › Design
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Makers Who Teach - Me Here Now: Two Tiny Islands - Rathlin and Berneray
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition