Close to nature, but with a global outlook

Fiadh Durham, owner of Fiadh Woven Design in Dingle, who opened her weaving shop in 2015

Fiadh Durham opened her shop, Fiadh Woven Design, on Main Street in Dingle, Co Kerry, in 2015. After completing a degree in textile design, specialising in woven textiles, in NCAD she had apprenticed with another local weaver doing tapestry work.

Eventually she felt it was time to branch out and work on her own approach: “When I was studying, the only weaving I came across in Ireland was quite traditional. From then on ...