Carnegie Oldpark Library
@carnegieoldpark
An abandoned heritage asset amongst the jagged peace lines of North Belfast - support our #BackToLife efforts as Carnegie Centre for Weaving!
Fabulous night with our resident Ursula Burns the Dangerous Harpist at Crescent Arts Centre then up the road to the Harrison for after party!
Wonderful creative and innovative weaving from our growing cluster of amateur, professional, young and older weavers in our Carnegie Centre for Weaving and textiles! #BacktoLife
View from Carnegie Oldpark library from our Weavers’ Studio, over the mills and factories that made Belfast great - a lovely linkage between our past and now a new creative future! #BacktoLife
Visitors on our #BacktoLife tour discussing the elegant staircase adorned by #ArachnesWeb by Rita Duffy
Passing by the library, Tony drops in to see what’s happening in our #BacktoLife efforts. Thanks for your support from Bellaghy!
Michael comes to visit and discuss exciting collaborations in our #BacktoLife plans!
Our beautiful @Belfast City coat-of-arms in sandstone by Praeger
Twinned with Copenhagen! Our library features in a study of regeneration alongside one in Denmark by Sara Dybris McQuaid of @aarhusuniint.bsky.social
Bicycle workshop taking shape in our big downstairs space… Will provide repairs, classes and advice. And adds practical services to our rich mix of meantime #BacktoLife activities!
Good to see another weaver ‘warping up’ in our studio as we come #BacktoLife
US visitors from California (also see our #CaliforniaCarnegies series from May!) fascinated by our Weavers’ Studio and Harpist - Teresa practices both! @vigraff.bsky.social
Our weaver @karenhamilton.bsky.social working on #TonySmithLoomDonation after his visit to help her set up his old tapestry loom! #BacktoLife in every sense.
Our Ethan Lay at US Consulate in Belfast for a briefing on our Carnegie Center for Weaving. Thanks everyone for a great morning’s animated debate!
What does one call a clatter of looms? We’ve been donated another tapestry loom to add to our growing collection!
Look who’s moving in! What do think is happening in our big back room?
The wonderful @SaraDybris McQuaid from @aarhusuniint.bsky.social tells our story, linked to her local library in Copenhagen. Historian-in-residence in 2025, friend of our elegant heritage asset.
Our COLA board of trustees hard at work planning our #BacktoLife future as Carnegie Centre for Weaving and community resource
All set for our fascinating discussions tonight at 6.30 on our history in Peacebuilding.
Look who visited us! @thedangerousharpist @ursulaburns drops by to explore our acoustics!
Great bunch of visitors from @InspiringYarns and @seamusheaneyestate.bsky.social to explore our Weaving Centre and plan exciting #BacktoLife collaborations!
Two of the wonderful Else Regensteiner weaving text books donated by her Chicago grandson Jesse Sinaiko to Carnegie Oldpark Library. Delighted weavers, grateful charity, humble donor - everyone happy!
From Chicago to Oldpark! Our newest donor Jesse Sinaiko gifts his grandmother’s weaving books for our library - Munich-born Else Regensteiner (1906-2003) is a guru of the American tradition
Exciting visit to our weavers’ studio - watch this space for further news! #BacktoLife in so many ways.
Here ends our recent wee series of #CaliforniaCarnegies and #ColoradoCarnegies! We visited Cahuenga, Santa Barbara, Lincoln Heights, South Pasadena, Denver Main, Decker, and Idaho Springs - a spectacular range of styles, locations, histories and stories of staff and users
#ColoradoCarnegies with Denver main, replacing the original Carnegie next to it, as one flourishes a free public library and the other is converted to a museum. Congratulations to @denvercitysound.bsky.social for far-sighted investments, beautiful architecture and coherent positive planning.