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Made in Ireland
Handmade in Belfast by one of our sewists.
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Tweed from Ardara
Donegal tweed, from the Atlantic edge of Ireland.
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Gold beetled linen
Scattered across the tweed.
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Lined in Irish linen
Wool against the weather, linen next to you.
Look closer
Our raglan, touched with gold
Relaxed raglan sleeves and a longline silhouette, made for layering in colder weather. Across the tweed, pieces of gold beetled linen catch the light.
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The gold
Gold beetled linen, scattered across the tweed.
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From behind
Long, and easy.
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Worn
Over a pale dress.
Donegal tweed
More Donegal tweed
The Raglan in other cloths, and our first tweed coat.
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Also in the familyraglan tweed coat
£1,450.00
In brown.
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Also in the familymen's raglan tweed coat
£1,350.00
Cut for men.
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Also in Donegal tweedthe amy coat
£1,550.00
The Amy Coat, our first tweed coat.
Donegal tweed.
Woven in Ardara.
Woven on the Atlantic edge of Ireland, by a family who have done it for six generations. The yarn is spun and dyed close to the loom, and the colours come from what surrounds it: the sea, the hills, the changing sky.
Here, the tweed is scattered with pieces of gold beetled linen, so the coat catches the light as you move. Two Irish cloths, worn as one.
One pair of hands,
start to finish.
Every piece is cut and sewn in Belfast by one of our sewists, who sees it through from the first cut to the last stitch.
We keep our making close to home on purpose. Belfast was once the linen capital of the world, and the skills that built it are rare now. Making here is how we keep them alive.
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The cloth
Beetled linen.
Struck until it shines.
Linen, wound on a wooden beam and beaten under wooden hammers until the weave closes and a quiet sheen comes up.
It is done at Upperlands, in the last beetling mill in the world, on engines well over a century old. The sheen comes from the hammering, not from any finish.
It gives the cloth a crispness ordinary linen does not have, and lets it hold a shape.
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