2020 Featherweight Blanket Shawl Collection

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.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk in a soft canola yellow-green, Handmade in Ireland.

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.

Featherweight linen & silk slimline scarf in a soft grey stone colour, 22cm x 210cm, woven and handmade in Ireland.

Natural linen and silk hand-dyed shawl, moss green, Handmade in Ireland.

This colour is now sold out. Contact Brendan via live chat to see similar colours or have a piece custom-dyed.

The ancient island village of Cong straddles two counties on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, between the loughs of Corrib and Mask. A sacred battleground in Celtic folklore, a 7th Century Abbey where Ireland’s last high king died, and later the backdrop to John Wayne’s ‘The Quiet Man’, this is a place where time doesn’t dare move.

At the centre of this village, accessible only through a series of turreted drawbridges guarded by footmen, Falcons & Great Irish Wolfhounds, is Ireland’s Neuschwanstein, Ashford Castle.

Inside its walled grounds every tree carries this unique iridescent moss, the texture of a dragon’s skin.

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 disappearing to be invisible depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, bright primrose yellow,

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 disappearing to be invisible depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

A deep and complex colour effect in golden green brown hand-dyed wrap-shawl woven from natural linen and silk, based on Georgia Pines, Oak and Spanish Moss, backlit by the setting sun, Handmade in Ireland.

Inspiration

The setting sun slowly falls,

Picking out tones of green, gold, bronze and black,

The delicate sage-toned Spanish Moss softens its glare,

Allowing our gazes to rise and take in the splendour of gigantic

columns of Georgia Pine holding up the sky.

Horizonless Silk & Linen Wrap Shawl

Silk & Linen wrap shawl woven from natural undyed linen and sky blue silk, Handmade in Ireland

The train and its comforting rhythm takes us through tunnels in the dark, and with a fluorescent shock we hurtle onto a cliffside:

An endless expanse of beige & blue engulfs every sense with charging calm. Gliding through space, even breath can pause:

Sea and sky are one, pulse can find its pace.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk, bright flamingo 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.

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.

Silver Shore Silk & Linen Shawl

Hand-dyed wrap shawl woven in natural linen & silk in iridescent silver, Handmade in Ireland

Cultra's shoreline dances before us under an Autumn sky, a story of lough & light in woven form.,<

Quicksilver grey disperses to a choir of powder-pink, flourescent-blue, sage-moss and all shimmering bronze.

Notes on Silver Shore

Hand-dyed wrap shawl woven in natural linen & silk in iridescent pink-toned silver, Handmade in Ireland

Amid rapid tides & swirling rains at the frontier of a world we know, We pause to wrestle fear, gulp hope & embrace what we cannot control.

Cultra's shoreline dances before us under an Autumn sky, a story of lough & light in woven form.,<

Quicksilver grey disperses to a choir of powder-pink, flourescent-blue, sage-moss and all shimmering bronze.

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & 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 disappearing entirely, 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.

Deep Teal Hand-dyed wrap-shawl in natural linen and silk, 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 in a soft grey stone colour. 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 disappearing entirely, depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

• Teal Blue

• 142cm x 142cm (third photo shows entire design of all our featherweight blanket shawls)

• Brendan Joseph signature woven in the lower right corner, creates visual interest when worn as scarf, or disappears entirely depending on how you wear

• 55% Silk, 45% Linen

• Presented in sustainable gift packaging

• Woven in Ireland, Handmade in Ireland

• Inspired by St. Moritz Bad, Switzerland

• Can be worn as a shawl or scarf

Hand-dyed wrap-shawl in natural linen and silk, teal blue, Handmade in Ireland.

It’s hard to define or describe the effervescent energy of Switzerlands 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.