A unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentries on Irish crafts capturing the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and eighties.
Textiles - wool spinning
Textiles - patchwork
Textiles - lace
Textiles - embroidery
Textiles - donegal weavers
Textiles - dublin woollen mill
Textiles - donegal carpets
Textiles - tailor
Textiles - english silk
Wood - carriage building
Wood - cavan cabinetmakers
Wood - cavan cooper
Wood - chair maker john surlis
Wood - dublin’s viking longship
Wood - harp making
Wood - hurl making
Wood - irish spinningwheel making
Wood - shannon one design
Ceramics - carley’s bridge potteries
Ceramics - belleek potteries
Ceramics - clay pipe works
Metal - a dublin silversmith
Metal - powers of the metal
Stone
Leather - dublin’s workhorses
Leather - shoe making
Leather - a dublin bookbinder
Leather - the saddler
Leather - curraghs
Willow, rush & straw - rushwork
Willow, rush & straw - basketmaking
Willow, rush & straw - wexford thatcher
Miscellaneous - fermanagh country
Miscellaneous - stoneground
Miscellaneous - a dublin candlemaker
Miscellaneous - of bees & bee skeps
Miscellaneous - lighthouse crafts
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