Crios made by John McAtasney, Master Weaver from Lurgan.

A crios is a multicoloured woven wool belt. Each crios takes about three hours to weave as crios weaving is not done on a loom but by hand. Traditionally, the warp threads are stretched between the hand and foot. The warp threads are pulled with the hand to form a shed for the weft to pass through. The completed crios is finished with several plaits at each end. They are usually woven from five or six different colours and traditionally have white edges. When the crios is finished it is about two metres in length.