{"id":358255,"date":"2026-03-21T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358255\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:29:43","slug":"the-irish-designers-making-tweed-cool-i-wanted-to-showcase-how-it-can-be-both-historical-but-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358255\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish designers making tweed cool: \u2018I wanted to showcase how it can be both historical but modern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Making a statement on international catwalks, the heritage fabric is having a moment. Here, Kathy Donaghy meets three female Irish designers who are giving tweed a new lease of life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Modern tweed design\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4a65357d-5f3a-4468-b59c-9626275ad445.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Modern tweed design<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Heritage fabric tweed is enjoying a comeback, weaving its way on to international catwalks. Now, a new crop of young Irish female designers are breathing fresh life into tweed and showcasing its sustainability and style credentials in their original designs. Here, we meet three of them:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Making a statement on international catwalks, the heritage fabric is having a moment. Here, Kathy Donaghy meets three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,75204],"class_list":{"0":"post-358255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kathy-donaghy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}