Natural un-dyed Aran weight yarns for your own projects. These are some of our favourite commonly used wools for our felt animals, sent to a mill for spinning, just back today. Shetland, BFL, Baby Alpaca blend White Romney White (cream) Blue Faced Leicester Brown Blue Faced Leicester

We’re settled back into a new school term so shop opening hours will be 10 - 2 weekdays (bar the inevitable few sick days!) We’ve been working on our Autumn/Winter pieces over the summer with customer favourite Robins out on the shelves this week. #irishcraft #speirgorm #wool #robins #visitdublin

We’ve been working with 100% Irish Galway Wool for a batch of sheep - it’s normally the just the stuffing as it’s SO hard to work with as an outside layer. A few other favourites that can be all white on the way. #irishwool #irishcraft #visitdublin #wool #sheep

Puffins were a special request by @cleoltd.bsky.social (though we try to keep a few at our shop). For years I thought there was too many details for puffins to work - all the colours in the beak, the. Icy markings, the shape - it this is how we’ve simplified it for our range #puffin #speirgorm

I’ve been in Kildare at my father in law’s funeral and met his uncle who is 93 and told me he owned Smithfield Motor Company which was situated on the same road as my shop, Benburb St. I found these photos and it seems to be opposite current Fidelity bar, where Bargaintown is now. #speirgorm #dublin

In celebration and in memory here’s to the Mammies, it’s Irish Mothers Day #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm

It’s Daffodil Day in support of the Irish Cancer Society, plenty of places to donate around Dublin City this morning. Seems extra significant this year with services being cut in the US. Thanks to all the volunteers and best wishes to all in treatment now. #daffodilday #fuckcancer

Spring time bunnies in natural white Romney and Oatmeal Blue Faced Leicester with tails cut from our smallest white felt scraps with pinking shears. Handmade at our Dublin store. #wool #irishcraft #bunnies #speirgorm

One of our rarer coloured wool creatures, usually found hiding at the back of the shop as they’re one of the more time consuming pieces. Just finished 5 of them, which probably record stock levels. #wool #irishcraft #fox #speirgorm #independentstore

Great idea, I like the positive approach!

A lot of people discover our store for the first time over St Patrick’s Weekend, here’s some of the other non felt animals products by other people and natural crafting wools we have for your own projects. Looking forward to a buzzing Dublin! #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm #knitting #stpatricksday

Quick stop motion of our new slugs in dark grey Merino wool around our own offcuts. #wool #irishcraft #stopmotion #speirgorm #slugs

With Musk getting all the limelight and Zuck seemingly gone quiet it would be easy to forget Meta’s part in all this. The want for photo first media is still keeping android users on Insta, help develop @flashes.blue for Android here www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring...

St Patrick’s Day is coming up, it’s been a full weekend festival last few years, based at Collin’s Square in the museum on our road. We usually see an influx of tourists, particularly Americans - I wonder what to expect this year, are Americans travelling to Europe? #stpatricks #speirgorm #tourism

🤖 Android here we come! Spread the word! Share this far and wide—yell it from rooftops, tell your rich uncle about it, slip it into casual conversation at the grocery store.

I’m a Brit so will put aside my Brexit grievances for a while and support this kind of thing. If you want to see more of these posters around London, you can too by donating here gofund.me/801e9c17

do you have a drum kit that we could use for the three day tour next week? Hiring here is W I L D and I could buy a medium kit for that price (but i don't wanna store one).

Wow Musk pulled the “getting his dad to have a word with the teachers because he was getting in trouble at school” move. #tesla #trump

Adding Canada and Greenland to our Free Shipping, for obvious non “salesy” reasons. #irishcraft #speirgorm

In the studio starting work (a bit behind schedule) on our spring time creatures. #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm #spring

Happy international Women’s Day! Most of the music I listen to is either a female artist or female fronted band, here’s 60 of them to last 3 1/2 hours of the day. open.spotify.com/playlist/4zM...

This is natural grey Gotland wool, it’s dark and coarse with a bit of a sheen and it’s quick to form a stiff felt. These sheep bodies are made with Gotland on the outside and Galway inside and finished with white Romney parts. Handmade at our Dublin City shop #wool #irishcrafts #speirgorm

Early 2000s I worked in the kitchen of the type of pub that did Cajun chicken baguette, chilli con carne in jacket spuds and cheesy chips etc. one pancake day I replaced all the carb elements with pancakes and the lunch crowd got really angry #pancakeday #speirgorm

A few years ago we made Puffling models for promotion of @gerrydalyart.bsky.social and @erikamcgann.bsky.social which go in bookshop windows and to school readings. My boys love the books and the third book in the series is published today as Gaeilge With @theobrienpress.bsky.social #speirgorm

Happy publication day to ‘Puifín Beag agus an Dorchadas’ by @erikamcgann.bsky.social, illustrated by @gerrydalyart.bsky.social, translated by Muireann ní Chíobháin. Out now! #irishlanguage #gaeilge #picturebooks #publicationday #irishpublishing #obrienpress

Don’t really understand but if I was a small business in US, I’d definitely take it as the OK for nothing through the books and don’t collect and pass on federal taxes

We end up with a lot of small offcuts and often have to sort them - working out what finishing features we have helps us decide what body parts to start. The little white triangles will become bunny tails for a springtime special #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm #craftsky

9 years ago I posted a prototype of this stork to announce I’d be shut for a few weeks after the birth of our first son - rather than stick his photo on the internet. We do the production version as ‘made to order’ only. Some things are too much work to keep in stock. #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm

I like to call Saturdays our reliable day but we’ll be closed today as my 3 week lurgy turned into a teeny bit of pneumonia. Watch yourselves out there, it’s a bad dose! #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm #sickday

There’s a pop-up ‘swastikar’, aka Tesla, dealership at the Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords, Co. Dublin. www.pavilions.ie/shop/tesla Not a great look to normalize trading with the neo- Nazis. Here’s a link to the customer service: www.pavilions.ie/contact-us #speirgorm #spéirghorm #Tesla

Hang on a minute, that’s Indepence Day! www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Missed international polar day yesterday, was just reminded on here. Our animals use repeated 3D shapes to create a coherent family aesthetic. Here’s how the Sperm Whale shape is reversed to be a polar bear. #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm #polarbear

Other than the dark on the left, which is natural grey merino blended with dyed black, these are 100% natural undyed wools used for each of our mouse shades. Sheep breeds are Finnish, Merino, Shetland and Blue Faced Leicester. The white stuffing is Galway Native breed. #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm

I’d be interested to try these shoes made from a waterproof leather alternative derived from apple skin waste in the juicing industry. I’m all for leather, it just sounds really innovative and sustainability is maintained in the other shoe components.

Labelling 50 natural wool mice for our next wholesale delivery, these are going to a shop in Dingle called Commodum. We use we mix and match several shades of undyed wool with felt manufacturer scraps for ears and tails. #irishcraft #wool #dingle #speirgorm

It’s @flashes.blue launch day, I was only ever really a photo sharer and not a Xweeter so I have big hopes for this, having taken my business off Insta. With my hands often in soapy wet wool for hours at a time, I liked the slower pace, looking at craft/design and posting a couple of times a week

Drawing donated to The Shan Vans collaborative music video project to raise money for humanitarian aid for displaced Palestinians. The single can be purchased here: theshanvans.bandcamp.com/track/the-sh...

This will make a lot of people happy tomorrow!

Natural white Merino Doves with feet and beak cut from felt manufacturer waste. #wool #doves #irishcraft #speirgorm

Natural White Kent Romney wool felt M-L sized Seals for some of our next stockist deliveries. Handmade at our Dublin City studio shop. #wool #irishcraft #dublin #speirgorm #seals

Making this from @imbibecoffee.bsky.social the studio coffee for the next while. Had it at home mainly as filter, a few as espresso for milk drinks (it’s omniroast) and enjoyed as both. Just to be clear, drinking it not selling it!

Please, if you pre order this so it downloads on launch day rather than waiting it has a better chance of hitting the app charts and a better chance of attracting people from Instagram (the nice people who are just still a bit nervous of losing their audiences)

Time for a studio beer while reshaping some parts that are just out of the washing machine. Wool shrinks with moisture, heat and friction - you might have found out with a jumper! The parts we make go in the machine 1/3 bigger than their final size

Irish Journalists, let’s get some stories on the launch of this new photo app @flashes.blue next week. Should be big news for small businesses who feel stuck on the other one. @irishtimes.com @independent.ie @dublininquirer.com #speirgorm #ireland #irishnews

On the wet work table this afternoon, any guesses? #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm

A favourite pick up item at the shop our mussels are made by felting natural black wool around a grey filling which is visible when cut open to sew in the dyed merino animal part. Handmade at our Dublin City studio #wool #irishcraft #irishdesign #dublin #speirgorm

These just survived a trip to @cleoltd.bsky.social where it started sunny leaving my shop and turned to full on horizontal rain and thunder by the time I’d walked the 20 mins to Kildare St. #wool #irishcraft #speirgorm

We’ve dozens of these to label up as part of our first wholesale orders from stockists for this year. We supply design shops, knitwear shops, gift shops, apparel and interiors shops around the country. About 1/2 our pieces go via stockists. #wool #craft #irish #speirgorm

Birds feet in various shades of natural wool felt to mix and match with our bird body parts. Often stitched on at home while watching a film when they also get their beak and eyes. #irishcraft #wool #ireland #speirgorm

Not a good look DCCOI www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/...