Homespun Irish Blankets To Dress Your Bed This Winter
By The Gloss
These are the makings of a home-grown bed …
Báinín – pronounced ‘bawneen’; ‘little white’ in English – is the name given to the ivory white undyed Irish sheep wool with which Aran sweaters are knitted.
Alongside Donegal tweed and Irish linen, báinín embodies so much that is good about Ireland – it is simple, pure, understated. The same adjectives might well describe the bedroom of our dreams, which is serene, with a beautifully made bed – a calm refuge.
Báinín blankets were for a long time a fixture on Irish beds, layered atop a starched sheet, neatly tucked in with hospital corners, warm as toast.
Now “Irish beds” might be made with linen sheets (those on the beds at Buckingham Palace are supplied by Fergusons of Co Down), a pretty cotton toile de jouy duvet by Foxford, Irish wool pillows by Woolow, and folded throws and blankets from Avoca, Magee, or Cushendale.
All the ingredients for a carefully made bed are Irish made or from Irish companies. Supporting them is a good way to start and end the day.
Romantic Blossom cotton duvet set, from €49.95; green honeycomb cotton throw, €139; matching cushions, €32 each; sage Hibernia mohair throw, €150; all at Foxford, Co Mayo.
Aquifolia wallpaper in Apple, €285 a roll; headboard covered with Aquifolia linen, €195 a metre; both House of Hackney.
Rowan Silare mohair blanket, €245, at Cushendale Woollen Mills, Co Kilkenny.
Pale green mohair throw, €189.95, at Avoca.
Cream wool blanket with blanket stitch trim, Kerry Woollen Mills X Stable Of Ireland, €260, at Stable Of Ireland.
Natural white wool blanket with stitch trim, from €95; Kerry Woollen Mills.
Kemp kingsize four-poster split rattan frame bed, €4,506, at Hedgeroe Home.
White Irish linen Oxford-edge pillowcases, €150, at Stable Of Ireland.
Celtic bronze embroidered cotton-linen throw, €695; Enhance by Maria Fenlon.
The Aura Collection organic sateen cotton bedding bundle, from €132; White & Green.
White cotton percale kick-pleat valance, Francis Brennan The Collection, from €30, at Dunnes Stores.
Green toile de jouy cotton duvet set, from €79.99, at Foxford.
Báinín eau de parfum, described as fresh and warm and pure, with a hint of gorse; €130, at Cloon Keen, Co Dublin and Galway.
Blue floral cotton dressing gown, €69.95; matching pyjamas, €79.95; both Avoca Collection, at Avoca.
Ivory Willow alpaca and leather slippers, £275stg; Olivia Morris At Home.
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