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Why Arans aren’t just for winter!

21 Thursday May 2015

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It might be May but there is still a bit of a chill in the air in Dublin, anyway. Here in The Donegal Shop, it’s winter all year round in the best possible way that we surround ourselves with beautiful wool products all year round. Above Roisin is wearing the traditional Ladies Aran Cardigan with honeycomb stitching down the from and on the arms combined with the diamond stitch. Finished off with leatherette look buttons and two front pockets. Made in Ireland in County Kildare by Arancraft Knitwear.

A very popular style across the ages, the young hipsters are coming in to buy this right up to our loyal local customers who are of a pensionable age! This classic designs never dates nor goes out of fashion.

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Here is your summer coat sorted right here (we are talking about an Irish summer of course ;-)) Some summer days can look like this……

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But you’ll still wish you were here….

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How to Tell a Genuine Aran Sweater

14 Monday Apr 2014

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With the progression of technology, the knitwear manufacturing industry is capable of producing Aran jumpers on a mass scale.  Some of the jumpers look very similar to the real deal, with machines able to knit a range of designs at the rate of millions of stitches per minute.

However it is impossible for machines to make an exact replica of a genuine Aran sweater. Here are just a few ways to spot an authentic Aran jumper.

  • machine knit jumpers use finer wool. A genuine Aran sweaters should feel heavier than you expect when you pick them up
  • traditional stitches cannot be recreated by machines, therefore only on authentic Aran jumpers are the intricate historical stitches truly visable
  • mass produced Aran sweaters loosen with wear. Hand knit or hand loomed Aran jumpers are more tightly knit making them longer lasting
  • although in the past Aran sweaters were made from untreated undyed sheep’s wool, these were found to by itchy and uncomfortable. Now it is more common to use treated and dyed pure wool which is tightly twisted and not too soft to the touch. Machine knit jumpers use softer wool which will lose stitch definition over time. This will not happen with real Aran sweate

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