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Sean-Henry Fitzsimons

Sean-Henry Fitzsimons

Knitwear specialist and Teaching and Learning Coordinator at London College of Fashion (UAL), working across craft and digital textiles.

Sep 16, 2026

6:46
But I think there's something that, Jean-Henri, you probably can come in on because I think you had a really wonderful contemporary example of how appreciation of craft, artisanism and making needs to be preserved and what steps are taken at the moment.
7:05
Yeah, so my idea around is like recognition, like cultural, technical, all that comes from our communities, our makers, our people around us, our educators, our technicians.
7:17
And with that being Irish, there's a lot of fun things happening in Ireland at the minute.
7:24
But just to step back on the idea of like identity.
7:28
So in the Inishmain Islands in Ireland is where the Iron Jumper existed.
7:32
It came from Ireland.
7:33
And when it was industrialized and became a cable net jumper across the world, it was a really interesting like spoke because everybody didn't realize actually the history behind it.

8 MINS LATER

15:49
I think, Jean-Henri, you can probably talk about this from a knitter's perspective really well.

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