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dc:description """This volume features newspaper articles and photographs about the following:
Background and Opening of KDW:
- the background to and establishment of Kilkenny Design Workshops
- the official opening of Kilkenny Design Workshops, mentioning several of the craftspeople involved
- an exhibition detailing all the aspects of work at Kilkenny Design Workshops
- Kilkenny Design Workshops first anniversary
- Kilkenny Design Workshop's first annual report
- the Scandinavian Report and government apathy towards it
- an assessment of Kilkenny Design Workshops after 2 years in operation
KDW Designs and Products:
- a new type of woven carpet to be manufactured at Kilkenny Design Workshops
- the Kilkenny Chair
- the opening of Wexford Craft Shop, which is to stock Kilkenny Design products
- the first international cat show in Kilkenny with a silver and marble trophy designed by Bertel Gardberg
- plans to increase the use of marble in Kilkenny Design products
- Kilkenny Design to design and execute a trophy for an award in the Transit Section at the Annual Packaging Competition
- the use of Irish grown flax in Kilkenny Design textile products
- Trophy made in Kilkenny marble for an award at the National Ploughing Championships
- a new tea-towel featuring a Book of Kells design
- the 1968 St. Patrick's Day gift to the President of the USA, a marble bowl with a silver shamrock centrepiece, designed in Kilkenny Design Workshops
- Altman's, a store in New York stocking Kilkenny Design products (includes Christmas gift feature from New York Times)
- an exhibition of Kilkenny products in Heal's, a furniture shop in London
KDW Staff:
- a vacant position for a manageress
- a vacant position for a handloom weaver
- a vacant position for a silversmith
- a vacant position for an Exhibition Manageress
- designers Agneta and Helena Ruuth talk about beings sisters and their experience in Ireland
- Rionore, a new jewellery company being set up in Kilkenny by Rudolf Heltzel
Other KDW News:
- a visit to Kilkenny Design Workshops by a group of people involved in the arts in Northern Ireland
- the donation of $23,000 by an American businessman Adrian Gerity, to set up a design library in Kilkenny Design Workshops
Industry and Exports:
- the importance of exports and industry to the Irish economy
- the opening of the International Wool Secretariat's new Dublin office
- the announcement of a Government programme for Small Industries
- the increase in export figures
- the British Toy Manufacturers Association Toy Fair in Brighton
- the appointed of a receiver to Galway Textile Printers
- a report on a Coras Trachtala trade mission to Australia
- Ireland being represented for the first time at the Spring Gift Show in Toronto, Canada
- the popularity of leprechauns in the souvenir trade
- an Irish Products Centre to be opened in New York
- the crisis in the jewellery industry in Britain
- Commercial products from KDW launched in shops in Ireland, Britain and America
- the potential move of Coras Trachtala's premises from Baggot Street to Lansdowne House
- Ceramics Ltd. a Co. Clare based pottery company forming a trade relationship with the Rosenthal Group, china manufacturers from West Germany
Education:
- plans to train a generation of Irish craftspeople
- Associated Electrical Industries Design Scholarship (won by Eleanor Collen)
- Ireland 66 Design Competition
- Young Designer of the Year Competition 1967, won by Linda Willis
- Winner of the second A.E.I scholarship, Barbara Mullarney
- the National Apprentice Competition
Kilkenny Culture and Heritage:
- a mural by artist Frank Heylin, commissioned by Rothe House, Kilkenny
- the ownership, handover and restoration of Kilkenny Castle
- the artist Henry Moore visits Dublin and Kilkenny
- Kilkenny as the location for the filming of 'Lock Up Your Daughters'
Ireland and KDW in International Press:
- an article about Dublin from the Danish newspaper 'Politiken'
- A travel report on Irish castles in The New York Times
- an upcoming Irish issue of 'Mobilia' - a Danish design journal
- Ezra Stroller, an international photographer visits Kilkenny to shoot a feature on Kilkenny Design Workshops for 'House Beautiful'
- features on Kilkenny Design Workshops in international publications such as Home Furnishing Daily, House Beautiful, The Brighton-Pittsford Post (New York) and The Record
Exhibitions:
- Kilkenny Design Workshops Christmas Fair 1966 and 1967
- the exhibition 'Finland Builds' at the Building Centre of Ireland
- an exhibition by Sonja Landweer in the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery
- Guinness Prize (awarded to Cecil O'Donohue and Peggy Sheridan) and exhibition in Little Theatre, Brown Thomas organised by the Irish Society for Design and Craftwork.
- the exhibition 'Historical Monuments of Germany' at the Building Centre, Baggot Street
- ROSC '67 and the controversy over moving Irish monuments
Heritage, Architecture and Archaeology
- plans for a new office block (Goulding) by the Grand Canal
- a feature on Chapter House of St. Mary's Abbey in Dublin
- the discovery of Knowth
- Knitting on the Aran Islands
The Importance of Design:
- new Irish stamps designed by Heinrich Gerl
- various debates around design in Ireland: being a designer, types of design, design education, improvement in Irish design and a uniquely Irish design aesthetic, criticisms of Kilkenny Design Workshops
Miscellaneous:
- the similarities between Ireland and Finland
- An auction of 17th, 18th and 19th century Irish Silver in Sotheby's, London
- feature on Richard B. Gump, a San Francisco businessman who collects silver pots
- Politicians unhappy with RTE
- Jim Harding who works in marble""";
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