Irish Crios Belt Yellow-Maroon

  This Irish Crios Belt maroon-yellow is handwoven at Swallow Studios.  The pronunciation of ‘Crios’ is ‘Kris’.   ‘Criosanna’  is the plural.   Traditionally woven from six different-coloured wool, the Crios often have 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 that 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 Maroon-Yellow as a colourful guitar strap. It may also feature in ‘tying the knot’  as in hand-fasting marriage ceremonies. It has been said that this crios is the perfect choice for fans of a certain young wizard, especially when organising their tying the knot event!   #criosbelts   72 inches in length Free Shipping