Saturn Cottage Industries is a one-woman creative studio, producing treasured items for homes and bodies. Using responsibly sourced materials -fabric made in Ireland and recovered from local end-of-life textiles - each piece is conceived and crafted by the designer in Dublin and sold, online, directly to slow-fashion heirloom collectors. Saturn Cottage Industries is about traditional craft, material reuse, and a return to “cottage industry” as a slow, local antidote to wasteful overproduction.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a fashion designer. Saturn Cottage Industries is where I can express myself through clothing and textiles, while countering the issues that made me fall out of love with the fashion industry.

By making, myself, in Ireland, using fabric made in Ireland or materials recovered from Irish waste streams, I want to demonstrate and develop an alternative to overproduction and invisible labour, and work to mend the environmental and social damage of the fast-fashion industry.

Transparent, thoughtful sourcing and production, a low carbon footprint, and buying direct, are the pillars of my twenty-first century cottage industry.

Who is Saturn Cottage Industries?

Lisa has an honours degree in fashion design from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from the UCD Innovation Academy, where she started developing the concept, and was awarded best-in-class, for her presentation of Saturn Cottage Industries. She is an experienced designer, maker, writer, and teacher, she speaks English, Irish, and Japanese, she loves ice-cream and dusk is her favourite time of day.

Role at Saturn Cottage Industries: designer, pattern drafter, cutter, machinist, embroiderer, quilter, supply manager, administrator, cleaner, bookkeeper, social media manager, webmaster, blogger, photographer, ecommerce manager, packer, shipping manager.

Responsible Sourcing

Locally sourced new

linen woven in Ireland, imported cotton thread and cotton batting from an Irish supplier.

vintage

an extensive, ongoing, and multigenerational collection of “nice bits of fabric”, buttons, etc.

recycled

salvage and scraps, saved from damaged/worn garments, leftover from other projects.
💡 This is the source I am most keen to develop; both for Saturn Cottage Industries, and working towards better prevention and reuse strategies for textile waste in Ireland. 💡

natural materials

linen, cotton, wool, silk - natural fibres are strong, breathable, and biodegradable.

my labels are organic cotton, manufactured and printed in the European Union.

Questions?

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