UPDATE: Due to Brexit impacts starting on January 1st, 2021, orders shipping to the United Kingdom that are total value of £135 and over (inclusive of shipping cost) are subject to tax & duty as per local laws and legislation. If your total order (including shipping costs) exceeds £135, you will be notified by our international courier partner DHL.The amount owed is payable upon delivery of goods by DHL. If the tax and duty fees exceed a value of £100, DHL will contact you in advance before they deliver to your door.
Information on tax & duties for all other countries outside EU:
All orders dispatched outside the EU are sent free of any Irish taxes. Products delivered to destinations outside the EU may be subject to taxes, fees, levies or other charges, which are imposed by the countries local legislation. The recipient of the products is responsible for all customs formalities for their export and import and will be required to pay any additional charges, including import duty, formal customs entry, taxes, levies and other charges. These charges vary depending on the product type and the country the goods are shipped into.
Each country has a different value threshold, if the total order value is over the miniumn threshold, charges may apply. For example, if you are shipping to the USA the value is $800, Canada is $20, and AU is $1000. *Totals include cost of shipping.
**The recipient of the goods, not the person who ordered them, will receive a separate request for payment of these charges. If you're ordering products to be delivered to someone else, please make sure they're aware they will be responsible for any additional charges. Unfortunately, we have no control over these charges and cannot predict what they may be, so we're unable to offer any assistance on these processes. We'd advise that you check the import charges applicable in any country before ordering products to be delivered there.

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Explore all the latest happenings at Avoca. From delicious recipes to in-store events, and exclusive promotions to fabulous gift inspiration, there's lots going on in the wonderful world of Avoca.
- Avoca Charity Partnership
Avoca are very proud to work with Wicklow-based charity, The Gavin Glynn Foundation, they help families of children battling cancer to travel overseas for treatment not available in Ireland.
- Blas Na HEireann Awards
Avoca are very proud to win gold, silver and bronze at this year's blas na heireann food awards!
- New! Avoca Cookbook
We are delighted to announce the release of our brand new cookbook, Avoca at Home - available NOW!
- Mount Usher Gardens
Become a member at Mount Usher Gardens with our Annual Season Ticket. The perfect gift for any nature-lover, a season ticket to the gardens allows you year-round access to our world-class Robinsonian gardens.
FOOD ORDERING- Food Ordering
Take the stress out of dinner parties, family gatherings, and business lunches with Avoca at Home Catering service. You can now order online and select the Avoca store you’d like to collect from.
- Food Markets
Did you know that you can place an Avoca Food Market order, and collect it from your local store?
- Catering Menu
Introducing our new click & collection food ordering service for Avoca Home Catering. You can now order your favourite Avoca foods with ease!
- Recipes
The foundation of all good cooking is good ingredients!
- Avoca Restaurants
If you’re looking for the perfect spot for a breakfast or lunch date, why not book a table at your favourite Avoca café or restaurant?
- News & Events
- What's New?
Explore all the latest happenings at Avoca. From delicious recipes to in-store events, and exclusive promotions to fabulous gift inspiration, there's lots going on in the wonderful world of Avoca.
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Avoca are very proud to work with Wicklow-based charity, The Gavin Glynn Foundation, they help families of children battling cancer to travel overseas for treatment not available in Ireland.
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Avoca are very proud to win gold, silver and bronze at this year's blas na heireann food awards!
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We are delighted to announce the release of our brand new cookbook, Avoca at Home - available NOW!
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Become a member at Mount Usher Gardens with our Annual Season Ticket. The perfect gift for any nature-lover, a season ticket to the gardens allows you year-round access to our world-class Robinsonian gardens.
- FOOD ORDERING
- Food Ordering
Take the stress out of dinner parties, family gatherings, and business lunches with Avoca at Home Catering service. You can now order online and select the Avoca store you’d like to collect from.
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Did you know that you can place an Avoca Food Market order, and collect it from your local store?
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Introducing our new click & collection food ordering service for Avoca Home Catering. You can now order your favourite Avoca foods with ease!
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The foundation of all good cooking is good ingredients!
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If you’re looking for the perfect spot for a breakfast or lunch date, why not book a table at your favourite Avoca café or restaurant?
- Christmas
- Christmas at Avoca
From the perfect gifts to festive food, we’re delighting in every little detail this Christmas.
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This Christmas, the delight is in the details. From every hand-cut star on top of our mince pies to each carefully curated hamper and ribbon-tied cakes to that thoughtful gift they'll be sure to love! We thought of every little thing so you don't have to.
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From starters and nibbles to Christmas dinner favourites and all the trimmings, our Christmas Feast menu is a celebration of festive food.
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There is much to bring joy in this year’s offering from Avoca. Our show-stopping selection of hampers are filled with delicacies from Ireland’s finest producers, as well as tasty treats made by hand in our Avoca kitchens and bakeries.
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Avoca are very proud to be working with our charity partners The Gavin Glynn Foundation, with all proceeds from this candle being donated to the very worthy and necessary care they provide.
Our Mill
Our mill, set in the charming village of Avoca Co. Wicklow, could easily be overlooked as a picture-perfect relic of times gone by. However, within these white washed walls lies the hub and heart of our weaving industry. All of our weaving and much of our design processes occur here. We love welcoming visitors to our mill where they can soak up the atmosphere and observe the weaving journey in progress. Having seen first-hand the care and attention which goes into each piece, visitors can continue to our shop and enjoy some of the delicious homemade sweet and savoury treats on offer in our cafe.
When touring our weaving mill, we feel visitors get a real sense of the skill and expertise of our weaving team. These dedicated local craftspeople have been working with us for many years. For some, the weaving trade has been passed down through the generations of their family and they can identify family members in the old photos adorning the walls of our mill.
Although we love sharing this experience in person, we feel it is important to document the journey for our customers who have not yet had the opportunity to visit us. We want you to know the hard work, care and attention our team pours in to each new piece of fabric as it passes from our home to yours.
The Avoca Mill Tour
We're delighted to say that our Avoca mill tours will be back up and running from 10th March! Our fantastic tour guides Jim and Allan are looking forward to welcoming our visitors and sharing our wonderful history, weaving processes, and lots more. Audio guides are now available in German, French, Spanish and Italian. With 2023 being the 300 years of our weaving mill, established in 1723, there is lots to talk about and celebrate this year.
For enquiries please email tours-events@avoca.comOpening Times:
Daily from 10 am - 4 pm (the last tour starts at 3 pm)
Pricing:
Adults €7.50 Senior Citizens & Students €6.00 Children Under 12 FREE
Tickets can be purchased at the retail desk on arrival.
For group bookings of 10+ email tours-events@avoca.com for rates and availability.
Our mill tour invites people to see first-hand where our throws, blankets, scarves, and clothing are created. Our visitors can witness the passion and skill needed to make these hand-finished pieces and chat with third-generation weavers to learn more about the craft.Winding and Warping
The warping frame is the first stage in our weaving journey. The pattern for the weave is handed over from our design team, and we create a pattern for the design. This determines the count and colours of the wrap threads, which are stretched across the loom. The weft threads are then woven over and under to create the fabric.
Our warping frame holds 384 cones of yarn, which are then placed in order onto the creel, feeding the threads in the correct sequence through the swift. Then, they are wound around individual beams which are lifted into the looms where the warp is tied in. Now, the weaving process can begin.
Some members of our mill’s experienced weaving team remember starting with us when these stages of the weaving process would have been very different. Threads were transferred onto pirns, a long conical rod which weft thread is wound around, to be placed in the shuttles for our hand looms. This was at one point done using a bicycle wheel and later a pirn winding machine which we still use today. Our warping frames also looked very different and were all created by hand. These methods are very time and labour intensive and only allowed for a small quantity to be produced.
Weaving
In our mill today, we operate with both handweaving and power looms. To hone and develop our weaving craft over the centuries, it has been important to introduce modern methods while staying true to our heritage. This enables us to create woven goods which represent the standard of excellence we hold ourselves to. On both looms, the beam which holds the warp threads is inserted and each thread is tied on to the end of the previous warp threads. Prior to this, the new warp threads are hand combed to ensure they are separated and tie on correctly. We use a tying in machine for process on our power looms.
The Power Loom
On this loom the warp threads are stretched across the loom and the weft threads are loaded. Rapiers carry these threads across the loom weaving over and under the warp threads, following the pattern given by our designers to create the style of weave and colour formation of the newly woven piece of cloth.
The Fly Shuttle Loom
On this loom each warp thread is hand tied to the loom by our weavers. They lift the warp threads up and down with foot pedals and sending the shuttle, which holds a pirn of the yarn, flying across the loom weaving the weft thread through the warp threads. A single weaver can craft up to 18metres of cloth per day using this method.
Fringing
Fringing is an integral part in the design of our throws, scarves and baby blankets.
The newly woven fabric is sent over to our fringing machine. The bolt of fabric is pulled tight around the frame of the machine and the spaces of threads which were not woven through with a weft are twisted tightly, creating a fringe.
Having our own fringing machine on site allows us to hand check each fringe and to specify the length, thickness and twist of the fringe.
Mending and Washing
Each and every one of our freshly woven bolts of fabric is handed over to our mending station at this point of the weaving journey.
Here the cloth is spread over an illuminated mending table where an expert eye examines and mends both sides the newly woven fabric by hand, ensuring the premium quality of our product as it continues on its weaving journey.
Once we are happy that the cloth is in perfect condition it is sent to be washed and brushed. As we are working with yarns created from fleece, they contain natural oils such as lanolin. These stages remove some of these oils and softens the fabric making it ready to be snuggled into when it reaches its final destination with you.
Cutting and Slitting
When the cloth has been washed and softened it is time for the individual scarves, wraps, baby blankets and throws to be cut from the spools of fabric and have their edges trimmed off.
The fabric is fed through the cutting machine in our weaving shed. This machine has a series of rotating blades which cleanly cut the fabric leaving a neat, straight edge.
Our team sets the correct number of blades depending on what way the fabric needs to be separated. For example, a spool of merino scarf woven fabric is six scarves wide, whereas a spool of throw fabric is just one throw wide. This process requires a close eye and steady hand to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Labelling and Tagging
At the final stage of the weaving journey, we put our name to our product. Each Avoca label is sewn on in our mill, having met our seal of approval throughout each stage of its creation.
Tags are attached and everything is bagged up and sent on to our stores and online dispatch centre, ready to be chosen by their future owners.