Weaving a crios (belt), Inis Meáin, Aran Islands

Cáit Ní Fháthartha (Ceata Bheag) weaving a traditional colourful Aran Island crios or belt. The warp thread was stretched between one hand and one foot, tying the end to the shoe allowing the weaver to work in any location. The choice of colours in a crios could be attributed to an individual weaver and the recipes for the dyes passed from one generation to the next. Both Ceata and her husband Ruairí, seated on the wall behind her, are wearing homespun clothes. Both wear pampooties, the soft calf-skin moccasins traditionally worn by fishermen to avoid puncturing the light-weight canvas boats (currachs). These islanders were identified by their granddaughter Teresa Ní Fháthartha of Inis Meáin in 2016.