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Textile Art & Felt Designs

Inspired by the Wild West of Ireland

Based near Galway, on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, award winning textile artist and designer Astrid Tomrop-Hofmann is Ireland’s leading felt artist and felt clothing designer.

Astrid has studied textile silk design and felting, delivered workshops and exhibited internationally. Inspired by Ireland’s celtic history, beautiful scenery, flora and fauna, her unique felt clothing pieces, including eco-friendly vibrant scarves, hats and fashion accessories, wall art and unique felt art commissions have been delivered to customers and clients across the world.

bombyxMORI has been creating wonderful wearable art since 1999, using fine wool, silk, and recycled materials. The eco-friendly vibrant range of scarves, hats and fashion accessories are born of both passion and dedication. Colours and patterns continue to play an integral part in the innovative designs.

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible”

Painter Paul Klee ( 1879-1940 )

Essential Elements

Water, soap and movement transform wool into felt. When silk is added a new style of felt is created.

The Wool

Sheep’s wool: long, short, rough, fine, straight or curly, easy or unruly - each sheep and each area of its body produces wool with individual characteristics. A wool fibre is covered with scales, which open when exposed to water, soap and heat; they then interlock with the scales of other fibres and become inseparable. Felt is thus created. Enjoy!

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Wearable Felt CLOTHING

Wearable Felt & Silk CLOTHING

FELT Art & Commissions

Customer reviews

Wearing a bombyxMori scarf is the closest ‘accessorised’ experience I have ever had of being intimately enfolded in the beauty of nature. Created with fabrics of silk and softened felt and inspired by the line, detail and colour of the natural world, bombyxMori scarfs range from being reminiscent of a woodland trail to being evocative of a tropical flower. Just gorgeous!

Suzanne Mulqueen

I have been selling bombyx Mori wearable Art creations for over 15 years in my shop The Cat and The Moon in Sligo. The quality of her products are always excellent. Astrid is an artist with such a love of colour and texture. Her work exudes a love of the colours in the Irish landscape. Her scarves and shawls are perfect to be worn in all seasons as the silks are cool in summer and warm in winter. My customers love the quality of her Felt and Silk scarves they are beautiful and easy to wear. I look forward to her new collection each year with great anticipation. Wishing you continues success.

Martina Hamilton

Shorelines Arts Festival's annual Visual Art Exhibition has been enhanced over the last 13 years with the inclusion of Astrid's vibrant and creative pieces. Her attention to detail in her process and in presentation adds to the aesthetic exhibitions we always aim to achieve. We also presented some of our guests who opened the festival with a scarf, art work or felt piece as a thank you from Shorelines.

Noelle Lynskey, Director, Shorelines Arts Festival

I love the artwork and imagination that goes into Astrid’s scarves, wraps and hats. The combination of colours and designs works well for our retail customers. bombyxmori wearable art have been a supplier to Adare Woollens shop for a good number of years. I love that she can do vibrant colour or more muted colour. I let Astrid choose the colour combinations and fabric choice

Olivia Gardiner - Adare Woollens

For the past 20 years I have been buying (and am still wearing) clothes and accessories beautifully designed and hand crafted by textile genius, Astrid Tomrop-Hofmann Of Bombyx

Janet Banville

All of Astrid’s designs simply enhance and add to one’s wardrobe making unique princesses out of all her lucky clients. I would highly recommend those.

Roisin

I was gifted a pair of Bombyx Mori cuff warmers seven years ago and was immediately converted as a customer. On a practical level Astrid's products are incredibly comfortable to wear and aesthetically beautiful. The combination of wool and silk lend to a sense of luxury - always a pleasure to wear and much admired.

Eleanor Griffin

I have a collection of wonderfully colourful, head wraps, scarves, soft hand-felted necklaces and wrist warmers -all of which are practical as well as beautiful and comforting to wear. As one example The wrist warmers ( of which I have several pairs) come in unique colour ways of dyed felt and hand embroidery which are combined with elegant fabrics that result in a warm and beautiful accessory.

Therese

We absolutely love Bombyx Mori’s selection of fine art garments, beautifully made, luxurious colours and wonderful designs. We see Astrid every year in Dublin, putting in orders for both our shops in Scotland. Our customers love the beautiful felt and silk art scarves, corsages, wristwarmers - such classic, unusual items we have stocked for over 10 years.

Fiona Bina Chaudhry

Wir kaufen gerne bei Bombyxmori Schals, weil Astrid eine unverwechselbare eigene Handschrift hat, die man sonst so nicht findet. Alle Schals sind außergewöhnlich, und auch die Kombination aus Wolle und Seide ist einfach hervorragend. Jeder einzelne Schal ist äußerst schmückend, und unsere Kundinnen wissen die aufwendige Handarbeit sehr zu schätzen.

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