https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft Identity and heritage are two huge sectors in the craft, fashion and textiles industry. I am currently working on a research project of making a Western education institution a more inclusive place to embrace self-identity in design associated with knitted craft and textiles. Please use this mapping padlet, to share a yarn-based craft from your heritage, something you would consider, this is your country's, town or family's craft. Also what makes it authentically associated with your identity, could a heritage craft present an identity card in your creative journey and career? en-us 2023-06-10 18:17:57 UTC 2025-12-07 20:23:04 UTC hello@padlet.com sfitzsimons5 https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619945759 Aran Jumper/sweater was an old identity format for clan/family members that associated an arrangement of stitches and cable designs to ones family or heritage identity. Now a world wide fabrication, but lost in the sense of its pagan routes and symbolism behind each stitch design.]]> 2023-06-10 18:27:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619945759 sfitzsimons5 https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619946671 Linen and flax was a huge industry in ireland especially the north of Ireland. It was a huge export and expressed my families identities around craft, and heritage jobs being passed down or child being trained in the trade]]> 2023-06-10 18:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619946671 sfitzsimons5 https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619948060 Donegal Tweed Yarn, is a world-famous yarn-producing company, still family-run, based in Ireland. As an Irish designer, it is custom to use this or see it within Irish designer collections, for a lot of my youth, I didn't appreciate the yarn until I found who I was as a designer during my studies. Donegal tweed has become a statement in both my machine knitting and hand knitting. It is a wonderful yarn, that is still a global player in the yarn industry.]]> 2023-06-10 18:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2619948060 sfitzsimons5 https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2622204670 Bilro Lace, is based around Brazilian Folklore kindly offered by my designer friend Karoline Vitto. ]]> 2023-06-13 11:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sfitzsimons5/Identities_within_craft/wish/2622204670