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Handfasting Cord - Celtic Water Blessing - Wedding Cord
"There is a beautifully subtle shading of aqua blues and greens to this crios that evokes the fresh clear flow of a stream. In Celtic tradition, water was held as a sacred element that could cleanse, heal and bless. The crios is the traditional handfast cord used in pagan wedding customs. This pattern is symmetrical, symbolizing the balance of the masculine and the feminine. In the center the double helix motif suggests the essence of creation running through life. This cord is made from Aran Ya
Red & Black Traditional Irish Crios Belt - Red & White
The crios belt was traditionally woven and worn by fishermen across Ireland, but particularly on the Aran Islands. It is woven by hand, without a loom, by simply stretching the yarn between two stools or, more traditionally, between one hand and one foot. Just as every family would knit their Aran sweaters with a particular series of stitches in order to distinguish a fisherman drowned at sea, so too would every crios have its own particular identifying set of colours. The crios would have been worn with a bástchóta (waistcoat) and home-spun, handwoven tweed trousers. During the 17th and 18th Centuries, Ireland came under English Penal Law whereby many aspects of Irish tradition, including religion, language and dress, were banned. It is for this reason that the crios, amongst many other a