A Sweater for Eternity!
But it's important to look closely. Let's take for example the bags of Hermès. No question, and most women in the world certainly agree, the bags are just great. Centuries-old proven craftsmanship, top design and a great story, which lasts from the stables to the must-have bag of the rich and famous. Small catch: the bags are not exclusively vegetable tanned, but unfortunately with chromium. And the price, in spite of 13 hours production time and 2,600 needle stitches, most women are still flying their ears away, not to mention the associated men. But there are still these mysterious sweaters.
Some call them happy-to-wear-dreams of untreated irish lambswool, some call them just home. We don't know, what it has so far prevented, this classical wool sweater is not like even the wheel impatient History victim. Is it the dangerous cliffs and the wild sea, that have made him so resistant? Is it the happy irish sheep who like people their perfect wool to warm them against the harsh climate? Or is it simple the great people of the western Irish island group, with their still more sympathic "stubborn mules" that made so far that this fabled Aran Sweater could not disappear? Rather, is today knitted still from mostly female hand ( in more than 200 hours with partly 100,000 stitches).
In order not forgotten in the future of the young on the islands this art of knitting, there are already numerous school projects that make this unique craft to the extended school subject. Because Aran sweaters have an old tradition. For centuries Irish peasant and sailor women had their men knitted these sweaters, with those mysterious patterns on it. The, so says the legend, only had two things in mind: to protect their men with embroided symbols of good fortune such as honeycomb, chevron or coastlines, not to be swallowed up by the wild sea. And if they died out there, and the rough sea sometimes washed them ashore again, these sweaters helped the widows at least to be able to identify their men better. For each clan has still its own embroidery pattern secrets.
But even on land this soft Irish wool protects its wearer from wind, cold and moisture. If you will, were and are these handknitted Aran Sweaters special tokens of love, make his owner also somehow always look sexy. And if you do not live too unhealthy, you should have him for the rest of your life a pure joy. And this for less than 200 Euros. And if you still should sooner bless the temporal than planned, as sad that may be, than the sweater at least go over to the children and heirs. Help them to bear the loss. So, either way, a Sweater for Eternity!
