Hands
TV
Type
1978
Year
1 Season
Seasons
★ 9.0
Rating
Documentary
Genre
A unique, multi-award winning series of thirty-seven documentries on Irish crafts capturing the final years of traditional rural and urban life in Ireland during the seventies and eighties.
Episodes
1. Textiles - Wool Spinning
2. Textiles - Patchwork
3. Textiles - Lace
4. Textiles - Embroidery
5. Textiles - Donegal Weavers
6. Textiles - Dublin Woollen Mill
7. Textiles - Donegal Carpets
8. Textiles - Tailor
9. Textiles - English Silk
10. Wood - Carriage Building
11. Wood - Cavan Cabinetmakers
12. Wood - Cavan Cooper
13. Wood - Leitrim Chair Maker John Surlis
14. Wood - Dublin’s Viking Longship
15. Wood - Harp Making
16. Wood - Hurl Making
17. Wood - Irish Spinningwheel Making
18. Wood - Shannon One Design
19. Ceramics - Carley’s Bridge Potteries
20. Ceramics - Belleek Potteries
21. Ceramics - Clay Pipe Works
22. Metal - A Dublin Silversmith
23. Metal - Powers Of The Metal
24. Stone
25. Leather - Dublin’s Workhorses
26. Leather - Shoe Making
27. Leather - A Dublin Bookbinder
28. Leather - The Saddler
29. Leather - Curraghs
30. Willow, Rush & Straw - Rushwork
31. Willow, Rush & Straw - Basketmaking
32. Willow, Rush & Straw - Wexford Thatcher
33. Miscellaneous - Fermanagh Country
34. Miscellaneous - Stoneground
35. Miscellaneous - A Dublin Candlemaker
36. Miscellaneous - Of Bees & Bee Skeps
37. Miscellaneous - Lighthouse Crafts
Cast
David Shaw-Smith
Gerrit van Gelderen
Sally Shaw-Smith