Gift Guide / Crafted Style
November 17, 2025 – Debra McCann
Looking to enhance your gifting with slow crafted style this Christmas? Discover products steeped in passion and regional tradition, combining heritage skills with modern design and a slow, small batch approach to production. Explore our range of brands emphasizing sustainability and quality, from seaweed skincare, and playful heritage knitwear to native botanical candles. Uncover these unique gift ideas below and support small makers with a special touch to your giving.
For Those That Love Authentic Clean Beauty
WASI is an Irish seaweed skincare company dedicated to bringing the ancient wisdom of seaweed remedies back to the forefront of modern skincare. Based in West Cork they craft products with ethically hand-harvested Irish seaweed, ensuring the highest quality and sustainability. From luxurious body oils to revitalising scrubs, the natural and nourishing skincare range offers a holistic approach to self-care.
Founder Claire was raised on a small family farm just outside Bantry town in Southwest Ireland, growing up, seaweed played a fundamental role in the health of the land and for local family. In recent times, remembrance of this ancient gift has been slipping away-and Claire is on a mission to bring seaweed back to the forefront as a vital ingredient of your skincare ritual.
“I’m often asked what my obsession with seaweed is. I tell them how generations of women in my family swore by it to cure every ailment going, my Great Grandmother lived to be 103 years while my Granny only made it to 100 years.....I think they may have been onto something!”
— Claire O'Sullivan (Founder)
For Those That Love A Playful Spin on Traditional Heritage
Howlin' - scottish slang for smelly - is an Antwerp knitwear brand with strong roots in Scotland and Ireland. Since 1981 they have been producing quality knitwear and in 2009 they launched a new label Howlin'. The way of manufacturing remains traditional but Howlin' offers more room for fantasy in shape and pattern.
Howlin' strives for timeless, playful products that are made with care. So whether it is a scarf or a shaggy waistcoat; all their products are individually manufactured and hand finished by traditionally skilled craftspeople in either Scotland and Ireland using the highest quality yarns possible.
"Since the start of Howlin’, our aim has been to bring a fresh, slightly twisted approach to Scottish knitwear while respecting its rich heritage. We keep the best of traditional techniques and combine them with new technologies, patterns, colours, and ideas.
In an ever-faster and more automated economy, we are eager to slow things down and focus on crafting well-made products. It’s a niche, but one we embrace. Just like a small record label releasing hand-stamped 7-inch records with personal liner notes — it’s the beauty in the details"- Howlin
For Those Who Love Bespoke Scents
FieldDay was born in 2002 when Alix, a girl from County Down was inspired to capture and bottle the native scents from the fragrant fields of her Irish countryside. Growing now for over 20 years, the brand is more passionate than ever about the great Irish outdoors and creating fragrances that soothe and inspire. The collections of candles, room spray and incense celebrate Ireland’s wildflowers, particularly the ordinary, and especially weeds. Nettle, Buttercup, Ivy, Rosehip; are just a few of the scents you’ll find in the collections.
All of the candles are hand poured in small batches at the FieldDay HQ in County Down. Candle making is an art, and takes time. Each one of the candles is double-poured by their chandlers Ella and Esther. It’s an old fashioned, slow process that can’t be rushed, but FieldDay believe you’ll see the difference in how their candles burn and throw scent around your home.
"In a world obsessed with making things quicker, where immediacy is all that matters, we put in the thinking, the ingredients and, above all else, the time, to handcraft beautiful products designed to elevate the simple moments of our every day lives. Mass production, this definitely isn’t. And we really do believe in stopping to smell the roses along the way…"
FieldDay Ireland
