Celtic Tweed is a luxury award winning Irish fashion house renowned for its masterful tailoring, sustainable ethos, and deep-rooted connection to Ireland’s cultural heritage. Based in Dublin, the brand crafts timeless collections using locally woven fabrics of tweed and linen and blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design.
Each piece tells a story—of place, pride, and people—brought to life through poetic branding, artisanal detail, and a commitment to ethical production. With a focus on quality, traceability, and emotional resonance, Celtic Tweed stands as a modern custodian of Ireland’s textile legacy.
What’s a typical day in the studio like for you?
A day in the studio starts from 8, with warm greetings and the comforting hum of sewing machines coming to life. The team settles in, cups of tea in hand, chatting through the day’s fittings, fabric arrivals, and pieces in progress. There’s a quiet rhythm to the work, patterns are laid, tweed is shaped, stitches are set with care. Customers pop in for fittings, welcomed like old friends, and leave feeling seen and styled. As the afternoon unfolds, the studio buzzes with creativity buttonholes are hand-finished, labels sewn in, and maybe a moment captured for social media to honour the team’s craft. By evening, the tools are tidied, tomorrow’s work is gently mapped out, and there’s a shared sense of pride in what’s been made together. It’s not just tailoring it’s a place of connection, and Irish soul.
What do you like most about your work?
Taking cloths, trims, linings, buttons, and creating something magical for our customers to wear.
What’s your favourite craft item in your home?
Furniture restoration
Tell us about your first craft item you made
An apron at school, I still have it.
Who is your inspiration?
I don’t think any one person is my inspiration, it comes from my experiences, and life in general.
What advice would you give someone who is considering this craft career?
Understand patterns, gradings, and know how to sew at a professional level.
Where do you get your inspiration?
History.
Is sustainability an important aspect of your business?
Yes, that is why we have introduced the Digital Product Passports onto our Spring Summer collection and will be rolling it our across all our collections next year.
What’s the most challenging part of your craft?
Finding people with the artisan skills to be part of our team.
What made you choose your discipline?
I didn’t choose this discipline I am an accidental designer, it was circumstances my husband was always involved in clothing so it found me through marriage.
Have you ever had a “happy accident” while making something?
Yes my working from home vest, happened over Covid, its now in the collection. I wanted a cosy utility piece that kept me warm and had large pockets. I still love it.
How do you balance creativity with the business side of things?
When not working I spend most of my time listening to radio, seeing family and friends, enjoying the garden or heading to the beach for a swim.
What would you say to anyone thinking of becoming a DCCI member
Go for it.
