Welcome to Clan Arans, your link to the authentic Irish family craft.
Our hand knit Aran sweaters provide you
with a precious heirloom to be passed on
to your children,
and their children's children, a work of
art unique to those bearing your name. This
sweater is a connection
to your Irish roots, to the history of your
family name. It has been hand knit for you
on the Aran Islands,
off the west coast of Ireland, where the
tradition of the Aran sweater has survived
for hundreds of years.
Historically, each family had their own
particular pattern, a unique combination
of stitches, which was
closely guarded within clans and passed
down from mother to daughter, generation
to generation.
These individual clan patterns have been
recorded and registered with the Aran Sweater
Museum on
the Aran Islands. We have used this register
in order to bring you a little piece of
your history, your Irish
ancestry. Each sweater is hand knit, each
stitch meticulously crafted by a skilled
knitter, in order to bring
you a gift unlike any other. In Ireland,
the past is an integral part of the present.
Now you can now carry
with you a part of your own history. As
the Aran sweater has always been a symbol
of Ireland, your
unique hand knit Aran sweater will be a
sign of pride in your Irish heritage.
We invite you to view your family's pattern, to
read the history of Irish Clans to learn
about the tradition of the Aran sweater and
to experience a truly Irish tradition.
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