Traditional irish belt crios weaving tutorial
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- How to weave a traditional irish crios belt without any special equipment or a loom using the traditional method on the foot from the Aran Islands.
book at the beginning is 'Irelands traditional crafts' by David Shaw Smith.
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Thank you for sharing this tutorial, youve erased my anxiety about trying to make my own crios! i thought they were super complicated but this actually seems like something a newbie can do :D
Of course! I love helping people learn and preserve traditional crafts. Good luck weaving!
That's a good explanation
@@betula-pendula thanks!
I cant figure it out.. im at the part where ive set everything up, ive passed the first string throug, and now i need to raise the unheddeld section up, but it just wont raise, the strings wont pass through eachother, the yarn just seems like it gets stuck on eachother and all it does is push the heddle bundle forward.. I was so excited to try this 😩 is it just the yarn getting stuck on eachother? i feel like my heddle strings might be too short too, but theyre just not moving through eahother at all..
I've made another video just last week showing how to address this issue! Switch your heddles to a thinner yarn/thread and tie then to a stick. Hope that helps!
im interested in trying out making my own crios but im unsure how much wool i would need to weave a full sized belt since most sources i find only specify how long a finished belt is, how much/ what length of wool do you usually use before its weaved?
@@teaformiles I usually cut the warps to about 100" for a 80-90" belt. I have a 27" waist so you might need up to about 150" warped depending on the finished length. Normally I use up a full ball of yarn on the weft and bits of lots of colors on the warps. Not sure how much the warps uses because I do so many colors but it would be how many warps × the warp length. My belts normally have about 25 heddled and 25 unheddled for a total of 50 warp threads. That makes a crios between 1.5-2 inches wide. Also I use worsted weight yarn.
@@scianhayes thank you, this is very helpful!
Wow, thank you for posting this! I taught myself how to make criosanna a few years ago and I would have LOVED to see a video like this.
Of course! That's why I made it 🥰. I also taught myself by watching videos that weren't intended to be tutorials for beginners and figured it would be helpful to other people wanting to learn if I made a tutorial that was intended to be step by step and start to finish.
Wow this is way less complicated than I thought. I’m going to a renaissance festival in about 5 months and I’m putting together a 15th century kern’s clothing (with the leine and the ionar and all that) and I’m a bit obsessive over the historical accuracy so I was hoping to weave my own crios belt and now it looks like I may be able to!
Yes! I love the saffron leine! I want to make a kern outfit someday, but I have too many things on my current make list. I've been growing saffron in hopes that when I finally get around to it I will be able to dye the leine myself!
What was the shrinkage?
My girlfriend loves anything to do with yarn and wool. She is an avid crocheter at the moment. She is amazing in every way possible and I want to marry her. As soon as I am financially stable of course. I have had this dream of doing a proper handfasting ceremony with a real crios. (I'm of Irish descent.) I wanted to buy a crios one day for our wedding. But buying them and shipping them to South Africa is insanely expensive. After watching this video, I think it would be more romantic to weave one myself. I'm definitely going to try and follow this tutorial. Thank you so much for a fantastic video. Would it at all be possible to post a link to the finished product? As a reference.
Making one yourself is a lovely idea! I was just working on this one for demonstration and didn't actually finish it 😅 so I don't actually have the finished band to show you. I do have another video that shows how to finish the edges though.
Thank you for this clear step-by-step instructional video. Would love to see how you finish the ends. 😊
Thanks! I will upload my follow up on how to do the ends and add new weft if you run out
Thank you very much for adding the videos for adding new weft and for ending the bands. Great videos. Your work is so beautiful!
@@jeannedarcy2747 of course it's my pleasure! And thank you!
so are you weaving an irish, or scottish belt. Aran islands are scottish
The Aran Islands are off the west coast of Ireland in Galway county and include Inishmore, Innisheer, and Inishmaan along with a couple smaller islands. Are you maybe conflating the Aran islands with the Scottish Arran isle which is a different place that has a similar name?
Where did you get those shoes?
@@LizabettRusso I made them! They are based off a 1-3rd century German find in the Marx Etzel site. I have tutorial for making them on my Tik Tok which I can edit to also post here if you want.
Wow. Thanks. It's a great step for me to understand how it works.
Hi! This tutorial was fantastic-have you found a reliable method to calculate shrinkage? I'm wondering what amounts of yarn I'll need to cut. Thanks!
I normally weave on an inkle loom which makes a weaving the same as on the foot so I would guess has simular shrinkage. I usually loose just under 10% to shrinkage on my loom. You also have to add some length for the finishings. And at a certain point towards the end it becomes unweavable because the warps are too close to the end. I usually warp 116 inches and end up with a woven band of about 85 inches with 6 inches of braids or fringe on the ends. You can also loose a couple inches in wet finishing but that depends on the fiber of the yarn you use. I use wool and have only ever lost a 2-3 inches total in length and about 1/16th inch in width when wet finishing.
Perhaps credit the book? I'm holding a copy in my hands right now, but others might like to know what it is. "Ireland's Traditional Crafts" David Shaw-Smith 1984. He also produced the documentary series "Hands" from the 1970s and 1980s which you can find on UA-cam. I'm editing a book right now written by own of the craftswomen he featured in the book back then.
Yes! Thank you! I posted this on multiple platforms and forgot credit the book in the description here. I really appreciate you for pointing that out.
Wait. I actually did credit the book in the description. I just assumed I hadn't when I saw your comment. I will keep it in mind though to credit materials on screen as part of a video in the future.
And thank you for recommending additional materials I will definitely see if I can find the documentary series.
hey there I'm currently following this video, im lost after you tie the hedeld strings together to start weaving I I just end up getting tangles and can't get the un hedeled ones down the bottom. :( can you help?
I can try to help! Are you at the weaving stage or the stage where you are individually picking the unheddled strings? Do you already have the unheddled strings in their yarn loop?
im at the stage where I have individually picked the unheddeld strings, then I tie them in a loop but when go to start weaving its like the yarn is crossed twice? I can't seem to get to where you're at, at (8.20) in the video. also thank you so much fro your reply and your help! :) @@scianhayes
@@amythompson585 okay. So after I separated the unheddled the order should be hand heddled on top, heddle string, cross over between heddled and unheddled, unheddled on top, cross between unheddled and heddled, foot with heddled on top. That is where I think you are. I believe between then and the point at 8:20 I actually removed my foot from the weaving and brought the section where the unheddled is on top down to the bottom and put my foot back in so there is only one cross between heddled abd unheddled. Do that abd the order should be hand the heddled on top, heddled stings, cross between heddled and unheddled, tie that keeps the unheddled together, foot with unheddled on top.
Urg sorry my auto correct always changes "and" to "abd" I can't make it stop 😪