Island Diary

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

Ba dheas an t-athrú ar aeráid an oileáin é tuirlingt i mbrothall Firenze le teocht 30 céim celsius…ar feadh thart ar chúig nóiméad! But we acclimatised and got down to work and had a great show.  A wonderful colour picture from 1973 taken by Chris Rodmell of harvesting the rye was the splendid backdrop to... read more

“You can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black (or white)”, to paraphrase Henry Ford. Fortunately, even the traditional dyeing techniques gave us a slightly broader range of colours for our knitwear although more and more we are now experimenting with natural undyed yarns also. Two of the protegés in the R&D... read more

Seo an triú bliain againne ag glacadh páirte sa seó seo i mBerlin na Gearmáine sa halla L.O.C.K.  “Labels of Common Kin”. This year found us showing our Autumn 2012 collection in the “Fire Dept” of the former Tempelhof airport. 20,000 people walked in and out by our stand over the three days, so we... read more

Jay Carroll and Jonathan Kirby of LEVIS Creative Team visited Inis Meáin in 2011 to work on a collaboration between Inis Meáin and LEVIS VINTAGE. Here is a little film that they recorded on their trip. read more