Textiles and Dress

Ardfinnan Woollen Mills

Mulcahy Redmond (MR & Co.), established 1869, was a family-run woollen and garment manufacturing company at the Ardfinnan Woollen Mills that traded as Ardfinnan in the village of Ardfinnan, County Tipperary, Ireland. Ardfinnan Woollen Mills may date to the 12th century, as a monastic woollen mills. A woollen and worsted mills, it became known as the last mills tied with Ireland's oldest and most famous wool exports from Waterford City. It was acclaimed for restoring local wool industry, early association with Savile Row, premium frieze and tweed patronised by royalty, melton for hunt coats, green tweed with the first Aer Lingus uniforms, worsted suitings with Éamon de Valera, knitting yarn with The Clancy Brothers, luxury handwoven tweed, ready-made suits and sport coats as the only factory on the island of Ireland completing all stages of production from fleece to clothing in the 20th century.

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• ▸Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks
• ▸1395
• ▸Bikini

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