The Tweed Project, the Galway atelier of Aoibheann McNamara and Triona Lillis, has spent more than a decade showing that Irish cloth can be worn with a smile. For Christmas it offers two pieces in its brightest tartans, both woven for the studio by Molloy & Sons in Donegal from 75 per cent mohair and 25 per cent wool: brushed, light and soft enough to wear close to the face.

The red tartan mohair Indian shawl is the generous one, 75 centimetres wide and 150 long, in red and cream checked with yellow and fringed at both ends. It goes round the shoulders on a cold walk, across a lap by the fire, or over the back of a chair until either is needed. 

Both are made in Ireland from Irish cloth, as everything at the studio is, and both bring a little Atlantic colour to the greyest weeks of the year.