🌿 Shuttleknit | Sustainability Journey
🚀 OUR STRATEGIC AMBITION
🌍We are building:🧶Ireland’s first Traveller-led heritage brand rooted in craft, storytelling, and sustainability.💡A creative pipeline training young Traveller women to become designers, entrepreneurs, and leaders.♻️A sustainable social enterprise model reinvesting profits into community, culture, and innovation.🗣️A Traveller-led voice in Irish design redefining how heritage, identity, and entrepreneurship are valued.
💛 OUR VALUES
IconValueDescription📖Heritage Through StorytellingEvery product tells a story — celebrating Traveller traditions and Wicklow roots through design.🌱Creative SustainabilityDesigning with care for people, culture, and planet — turning waste into beauty and keeping textiles in circulation.👨👩👧Family FirstReflecting Traveller culture through flexibility, respect, and balance between work and home.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
♻️ Turning waste into one-of-a-kind homeware pieces.
🧵 Using eco-friendly yarns and creative reuse.
💚 Leading with initiatives like Knit Swap to keep textiles in circulation.
✨ 25 YEARS AHEAD OF POLICY
Shuttleknit has been quietly achieving what national and EU frameworks are only now aspiring to:
✅ Employment | ✅ Inclusion | ✅ Sustainability | ✅ Cultural Pride
“With the right space and support, Traveller women design and inspire change — 25 years ahead of policy, and still shaping the future.”
