Watching this reminds me of my mother. We did a lot of weaving, spinning, creating yarns and such. We even dyed our own yarn in the old school ways using activated charcoal and different types of plants. Way the most amazing time of my life.
So glad they decided to rerun this series of docs. They're so well made. From the shots, to the simple narrative to the way they let the precise narration explain the sometimes very complex work being done while keeping a human feel to the overall piece. Brilliant series of films. These must have taken a long time to make between preproduction and editing WITH FILM. Great.
get in it’s because there accents. I know I love watching videos with subtitles too it’s can be kinda annoying the random words the subtitles come up with trying to make sense of the accents but oh well still a great series ❤️
Come to think of it this one wasn’t so bad have u seen the bee keeper one omg that one was hilariously off but I couldn’t understand the only man anyways super beautiful accents tho
@@esotericexplorersmartinez493 No, haven't seen that one. haha I suppose you'd allow 'em one bad performance anyway though if the rest of them are good. Ya our accents are ok I suppose. Although I'm from the south, we tend to sound more like severely drunken Jamaicans who just came out of a dental surgery, but look I suppose we got to be thankful for what we got and try and play to our strengths ya know!!!
@john noonan it’s not a bad performance at all it’s the American BOT subtitles that can’t understand so they just guess the word that sounds like what there saying. The accents are amazing and gorgeous I just can’t understand the really thick ones when they speak so quickly but it’s still beautiful to listen too
My family and I spent near a month in Ireland with 2 weeks in Killybegs. Lovely place, warm and friendly people. We visited Donegal Carpets, amazing place.
How have I never heard about this? What an interesting film. I had to watch it a couple of times. This was a trade a person could be apprenticed for. Look how young and proud they are. In the beginning of the film. Later a bit older and wiser. Still smiling and proud of their Craft.
I am truly loving this series about the People from where my Grandfather's family originates! Born in Summerside in Prince Edward Island, he was very skilled in many sufficient areas. Both my Mom's parents were wonderful teachers for me as a youngster. Grandma's family came from Antigonish in Nova Scotia, of very Acadian stock. They met in southern Alberta and knew how to be very self-sufficient.
I grew up a stones throw away from that carpet factory in Killybegs. And my father once worked there as an electrician. I have fond memories of my sister, brother and I stealing our fathers keys and sneaking in to the factory at night and running amok through the piles of wool in the attic. It's such a shame the factory closed.
Good grief, what an enormous amount of effort resulting in unbelievably fantastic quality carpets. A great video again. Thank you so much for uploading and sharing this old documentary.
Why didn’t the Irish government step in and make it a living national treasure and keep it running even if it was not quite at budget.the amount of tourism into the factory would probably pay the wages alone
I had a fabulous opportunity to see the Donegal Carpet factory a few years ago and 'tried' to loop the wool on a sample carpet piece. What a fabulous experience and history of craftsmanship. Was staying at Glencolmcille for a few months absorbing Donegal's people, countryside and culture. Love Australia. xxx
What a fine library of documentaries you have here, loving this opportunity for a full good look into a window of yesteryear that all this series of “ handmade “ documentaries is able to offer. Excellent uploads ❤ and a big thank you for doing so. 💯🙏 new subscriber here. ❤
that's still cheap. As said, a skilled worker can do about 400 square centimeters a day. A square foot is 900 square centimeters, so a foot of carpet represents more than two days work. Add to that the cost of wool, twine, design and overhead costs and I simply can't understand how anyone could live off a salary of three dollars an hour
also, that carpet would take five weavers fourteen weeks to knot. Think of that. Even if the wool, design and overheadcosts were free, each weaver would take home only 128 dollars a week. But of course all these things would take at least half of that, so the weavers would get 60 bucks a week. Let's say a skilled worker would have to earn at least 10 bucks a hour. I mean, it would be slightly above 'working at McDonalds serving fries', but let's take ten bucks as the very minimum. Then five weavers weaving eight hours for fourteen weeks... the weaving alone would cost you 28.000 dollars!
@@Smallpotato1965 You're jumping to a lot of conclusions over a simple comment. I didn't say whether it was cheap or expensive, I was just stating what it cost. I a firm believer in paying for quality if you can afford it.
Wonderful video, saints with patience. I've never been one to be able to perform repetitious tasks so this would be a straight jacket end result for me. Never enjoyed a video more than this one. Excellent narration, proper facts, a winner all around.
This documentary series was like a death curse to just about every company highlighted in each episode. I haven't found one yet that is still in existence (book binder, clay pipes, now carpets.. all out of business).
@@bigbearfuzzums7027 Historically on family owned businesses... the 3rd generation tends to kill a business. In this case it is simply "progress". The book binding and clay pipe factory was enthralling to me. Sad they're gone.
Globalism and the curse of the rich is upon the western nations to reduce their influence by bringing in immigrants to divide the society and breed out the native population and also companies go offshore to compete because protection barriers (import duties etc) are dropped creating free trade everywhere,the result rich fat cats ,poor populace with no political or economic clout, a case of full spectrum dominance from a political sense and the native population dispossessed or genocided eventually
I want to find a new carpet lay on it an just feel it with my hands and look at it very very closely. So it would have to be new. What a work of art everyone is.
people have seen me as queer, ever since i can remember, for not wanting to 'buy' things when i could learn to create them myself. always the arguments "but it's more convenient", and "we'll be having fun while you're spending all that time working!" . but i find the act of working to create something, more fun than convenience. convenience kills creativity and innovation!
I tried to find info, there is a company in the internet making Donegal Carpets but it's not the same anymore, right? I don't fully understand, is there still a factory in Killybegs working?
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14:20 it is shameful to call it a turkish knot, the turks never had real carpet weaving. They took over Byzantium and all of the arts were renamed as if they were turkish. The turks were nomads, they barely had a cuisine or any art form. It is evident that when they took over Byzantium they pretty much destroyed the old world and brought about the dark ages to the rest of the Europe at the absence of the continuous civilization that lied there.
