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Avoca Handweavers, now mostly known simply as Avoca, is a clothing manufacturing, retail and food business in Ireland. The company began in Avoca , County Wicklow , and is the oldest working woollen mill in Ireland and one of the world's oldest manufacturing companies.
Avoca (Irish: Abhóca, formerly Abhainn Mhór, meaning 'the great river') [2] is a small town near Arklow, in County Wicklow, Ireland.It is situated on the River Avoca.. The Avoca area has been associated with its copper mines for many years and the valley has been celebrated by Thomas Moore in the song "The Meeting of the Waters".
Avoca Handweavers have one of their earliest outlets at the northern end of the village. This is situated on the site of Glencormac House which was completed in 1860 by the Jameson Whiskey family, who were originally from Scotland. The house became a hotel (Grade A, a precursor to five-star rated hotels) in the 1950s but was razed to the ground ...
He stopped working as a solicitor in 1974, when he and his wife purchased Avoca Handweavers, a County Wicklow business dating back to 1723. [5] By 2006, the company had eight stores in Ireland and one in the United States, and employed 475 people.
Powerscourt House terrace & fountain (1800s) During the 16th century the house came into the ownership of the Powerscourt family. The family rose in wealth and prominence, and in the 18th century Richard Wingfield, 1st Viscount Powerscourt, commissioned the architect Richard Cassels to extensively alter and remodel the medieval castle to create a modern country house.
1.3 Ireland. 1.4 New Zealand. 1.5 South Africa. 1.6 United States. 2 Other uses. 3 See also. ... Avoca Handweavers, an Irish clothing manufacturing, retail and food ...
Emily Adelaide Wynne was born in Germany in 1872. Her parents were Albert Augustus Wynne, a civil and mining engineer, and Alice Katherine (née Wynne). She was the eldest of five children, with three sisters, Winifred Frances (1873–1969), and Alice Clara 'Veronica' (1890–1969), and two brothers John Brian (1877–1977) known as Jack and Charles (1895–1917).
Churchill Weavers was a handweaving company that operated from 1922 to 2007 in Berea, Kentucky, an area of Appalachia long associated with handcrafts.. Color postcard showing the Churchill Weavers building, ca. 1950