The Wynne family were originally from Hazelwood or Annagh, County Sligo, and were related to Dr Kathleen Lynn and Constance Markievicz.
Wynne developed her own signature pink, along with other colours derived from her botanical knowledge allowing her to source and grow plants in their large walled garden for dyes.
[4] The Avoca Woollen Mills products were sold through the Country Shop on 23 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, and supplied tweed to the designer Elsa Schiaparelli.
They opened a shop in London in the 1930s, overseen by Wynne's cousin, Barbara Donovan, acting as the mill's English agent.
The mill struggled without her direction, but continued into the early 1970s, when it was purchased by Donald Pratt who restarted the business using the Wynnes' palette of colours.
[1] Papers, diaries and other archival material from Wynne and her sisters are held in the Manuscript collections of the Library of Trinity College Dublin.