M Irt N Beag Gal Nta

For generations, the wives of Island fishermen knitted Aran workwear for their husbands. A hundred years ago, Máire Cáit, a skilled and imaginative knitter, decided her husband’s workwear should look as special as his Sunday Best. Thanks to his wife’s fine craftwork and distinctive patterns, Máirtín Beag became known as a particularly well-dressed man. Inspired by her imagination and skill, the Máirtín Beag Galánta is an elegant and understated Aran Sweater which by now has become an Inis Meáin signature knitwear design. Galánta is used to describe an understated yet confident sense of style, similar to the Italian sprezzatura. Featuring intricate cables and a high neck finished with three horn buttons and hand-made button loops, creating stylish yet simple closures. Crafted with super-premium Cashmere and Merino yarn from Italian heritage producer, Filati Biagioli Modesto, made to the highest European environmental standards using only organic dyes. Available in classic Black, a rich solid Green, and Black Mix, a creatively complex colour-way involving dark brown, charcoal, black and a rainbow of multi-coloured flecks. Designed, made and hand-finished in our Aran Islands workshop. An Aran Sweater made in the only knitwear factory in the Aran Islands - a true Aran from Aran.