Ali’s Selects for Summer into Autumn

Hand-dyed green featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, 22cm x 150cm, Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

Hand-dyed brown gold and black featherweight scarf woven in ultrafine linen & silk. 22cm x 200cm, Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

Deep gunmetal blue with almost black, Silk and Linen, 22cm x 150cm, Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, in tones of soft desaturated orange and pink. 142cm x 142cm (second photo shows entire design of our featherweight blanket shawls), Brendan Joseph signature woven into lower right hand corner, giving visual interest when worn as a scarf, and disappearing entirely depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

The slicing of a pink Grapefruit. Fluid Ruby red glistening fractals hiding under an eggshell sheen, porous (and oh so fragrant when you scratch, with a burst of juice like from an atomiser) skin in leathery blood orange. Leaves of crinkly green. And the mouth feel. The multi-sensory experience of it transcends language, sight, taste, smell, touch.

Hand-dyed wrap-shawl in ultrafine linen and silk, 142cm x 142cm (second photo shows entire design of our featherweight blanket shawls), Brendan Joseph signature woven into lower right hand corner, giving visual interest when worn as a scarf, and invisible depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

The nightsky forms an infinite expanse of deepest teal in the early hours before dawn. A chorus of songbirds, cuckoos, and the fluttering of leaves in the breeze...

Soaring before us are the splendid columns of gigantic Scots Pine, towering over oak and ash, as if holding up the sky.

Their distant canopies fan out like the spines of a dandelion clock. There’s comfort & safety in being small, like an ant going about its work, safe, harboured in his own little world, as in this moment, we are in ours.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, 142cm x 142cm (third photo shows entire design of our featherweight blanket shawls), Brendan Joseph signature woven into lower right hand corner, giving visual interest when worn as a scarf, and disappears entirely depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

Bright Glacial Petrol Blue Pocket square (stamp cut edges), Silk and Linen, 23cm x 25cm, Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

It’s hard to define or describe the effervescent energy of Switzerland’s glacial lakes, and their incredible show of colour, constantly changing throughout the seasons. This is St. Moritz Bad (lake) in the canton of Graubünden in late March as Winter thaws and Spring begins.

Early morning mist intensifies the light low on the water: A dance of bright glacial petrol blue. The midday sun awakens coppery blue, and at Sunset it dances again in the deepest cyans and teals, giving way to a blanket of peppermint grey in the fading evening light.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, 142cm x 142cm (third photo shows entire design of our featherweight blanket shawls), Brendan Joseph signature woven into lower right hand corner, giving visual interest when worn as a scarf, and invisible depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.