Season 1 • Episode 1
LatestTextiles - Wool Spinning
A unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentries on Irish crafts capturing the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and eighties.
Cinematography
Stunning 16mm that makes mud look like poetry.
Direction
No narration needed — hands tell the whole story.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Commissioned by RTÉ during a push to preserve Irish heritage before EEC membership accelerated rural decline. FREE
David Shaw-Smith reportedly filmed many episodes alone with a wind-up Bolex, often sleeping in his car between shoots. LIGHT
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