Way out on the road beyond Donegal town beyond Inver, Dunkineely, Bruckless and the thriving fishing port of Killybegs sits the quaint village of Kilcar. Here amidst the clanking and clattering of handlooms Kevin Donaghy and his team of weavers produce some of the most sumptious cloth in Ireland. At once both hefty and soft it has substance and texture and that goregeous blending of colours that looks like they've spun strands of the nearby Sliabh Liag with its purples and heathers, sprinklings of yellow, and rain cloud grey.

The Majestic Sliabh Liag Mountains

The town of Kilcar, Co. Donegal

 This fabric is truly and Irish original and at Studio Donegal one senses a mission to maintain the skills and ethos that make it so. There is an honest committment here to the handweaving skills that have existed in this area for generations not as means to draw visitors to acknowledge the quaint antiquity of this means of production. Rather, it seems as though it is an understanding of how that indefinable blending of craft and skill and work and art and beauty can give meaning to life. The cloth of Studio Donegal is a summation of all these things. In our online store you will find some beautiful examples of the work of Studio Donegal. These wonderful throws will last a lifetime and make terrific gifts for people who appreciate the finer things in life.