Irish Crios Belt – Salmon Weir

Christy Crios – Salmon Weir – Irish Handwoven Belt
This Irish Crios Belt – Salmon Weir, in Green-Yellow, is handwoven at Swallow Studios.  It is named for the Salmon Weir in Galway City, because it reminds Liz of the colours around the Bridge, a bridge she crossed many, many times in my college days.

The pronunciation of ‘Crios’ is ‘Kris’.   ‘Crioseanna’  is the plural.   Traditionally woven from wool of six different colours, the Crios often has a white border.  The men of the Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland, wore the crios, bound around the waist of their tweed trousers.

Liz weaves the ‘CHRISTY CRIOS’  on a loom she inherited from a property clear out in County Sligo. The shed’s owner wanted the two-shaft floor loom ‘to go to a good home’.  So Liz gladly obliged and used the loom to perfect the design and weaving of ‘the crios’. Liz’s friend and mentor, Kitty Joyce of Cleo Ltd, encouraged her to keep this craft alive. ‘CHRISTY CRIOS’ are handcrafted with beautiful Donegal tweed wool.
Use our Irish Crios Belt Salmon Weir as a colourful guitar strap. It may also feature in ‘tying the knot’  as in hand-fasting marriage ceremonies.
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72 inches in length
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