Like all good stories, this story begins with a woman following her intuition.
Aideen Macken saw a picture of a traditional Irish woven belt or Crios (pronounced Kris) in a book, thought she might like to try it and just a few days later, stumbled across a beginner’s class nearby in the Liberties Weavers. This is a group stubbornly keeping crafts alive; it was here that her Swedish teacher Marja Almqvist guided her through the basics, which Aideen quickly learned.
‘I felt like my hands were remembering something.’
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