Island Diary

Our US agent Michal Sestak, Senior Vice President BARNEYS NY Menswear, Tom Kalendarian & Tarlach de Blacam, pictured on Saturday October 26th during BARNEY’S Artisan Day when Artisan Producers from around the world attended in BARNEYS Madison Avenue to meet customers and to take special orders. The newly refurbished ground floor is a really beautiful... read more

Its always nice to be featured in one of our favourite magazines. The latest issue of Monocle (No. 68, November 2013) has a great fashion briefing — Knits, hats gloves, backpacks everything you need for an arctic winter, plus retailers and labels to watch. Lovely to see our sweaters among the selection. read more

The Inis Méain Knitting Company were recently invited to make a presentation at the Irish Knitwear & Heritage Seminar and the launch of “Harris Tweed & Aran Sweater” by Yoshimi Hasegawa. The event took place at the Embassy of Ireland in Tokyo, hosted by the Ambassador John Neary. We had the opportunity to present an... read more

The flora of Inis Meáin is always an inspiration when we prepare the Spring Collection. This year we used some of Sarah Walker’s paintings of fields of Montbretia, Meadowsweet and various Orchids as a colour theme for the collection. We showed some of Sarah’s paintings at the stand and they attracted a lot of attention.... read more

One of our customers stopped to send us a quick picture from Sunny New York city this week of the Bergdorf Goodman shop window on Fifth Avenue. We thought that taking your time to enjoy the sun and relax, even in the midst of the busy pedestrians, was a very Inis Meáin thing to do!... read more

Following the successful shows in Firenze and Berlin, this week finds us in Tokyo where Miyamoto-san has arranged an exquisite presentation as we meet with our Japanese customers. We look forward to enjoying our days of meetings but also the local culinary delights in the evening. read more

We began showing at Bread & Butter, Berlin 4 years ago and we are now getting to know and meet new clients in Northern Europe, UK, Holland, Scandinavia, the Baltic States and of course Germany. This is a real fun place to show with great energy and a relaxed atmosphere. We photographed Aimar Berg &... read more

Fishing was the story at Pitti this year, with all the equipment appropriately knitted up in bright colours to complement our 100 year old sweater, the Corrán Cam (lit. Crooked sickle, or Zig Zag) pattern which we revived with added colour.It was great to catch up with clients from all over the world, when we... read more

The Heritage Post is a new german culture magazine for men. Focusing on authenticity, heritage and originality they feature unique crafted products. We were delighted to be featured in their latest volume. theheritagepost.com read more

Following a busy year with productions in London and New York, Druid’s long association with Inis Meáin continued as the DruidMurphy production of “Conversations on a Homecoming” came to Inis Meáin. Ní gá a rá go raibh an-oíche drámaíochta ann, agus an-oíche comhluadair, ceoil agus ceiliúrtha ina dhiaidh. My favourite story of the evening was... read more