Ireland:weavers fight to save Donegal tweed from foreign imposters
 

Good SkyNewsHD
took a M&S Donegal Tweed Jacket
but made in Cambodia
into the Irish factory.


Ireland unlike Scotland
does not help these great hand-made quality jackets
to get protection.


Pop into M&S in Dublin
buy a Donegal Tweed Jacket
It's a lot cheaper than the original makers.

M&S refused to speak to SkyNews.


[Currently, a textile manufacturer anywhere
in the world can produce fabric
and call it Donegal tweed,
often vastly undercutting the
genuine producers.

"It's not great," says Kieran Molloy,
a sixth-generation weaver at Molloy & Sons.

He says the unrestricted use of the
term Donegal "is making people think
it's a craft product,
when in fact maybe it's coming from an e
normous mill in the UK or in China or Italy".

"When people maybe think of Donegal,
and they're thinking of mountains and sheep
and the craft, a lot of the time that's not
what they're getting."

Donegal tweed is a woollen fabric with
neps - or flecks - of distinctive colours spun
into the yarn as its main characteristic.]


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