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The Death of Distance - direct from Inis Meain

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The History of the Textile Industry in Orethe

In those days, i mean, people were still wearing hanspon tweed. Everything was locally made, and everything was rown ashore. We had hand machines, and we graduated different generations of new machinery over the years. I should say that we've concentrated a lot on men'sware bause i feel more comfortable designing and making mens ware. They'd never seen knitted linen before ar theyd. Seen very, very little, if they certainly hadn't seen it coming from ireland. And em from there on, we succeeded in getting for ourselves.

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