The term Galway shawl (Irish: seál na Gaillimhe)[1] usually refers to a specific type of heavyweight shawl that was worn by Irish women during the colder seasons. It became popular during the late nineteenth century[2] and was still being worn up until the 1950s by a few, older Irish women. Throughout Ireland, not just in Galway, women traditionally wore various types of lightweight shawls that were hand knit, crocheted, or woven; and would have been of solid color, plaid, print, or paisley. Lightweight shawls, worn directly over the blouse and tied or tucked in at the waist, were worn in all seasons, both indoors and out.[3] The Galway shawl was a winter-weight outer garment worn over the lightweight shawl.
- ^ Stitches In Time: exhibition of traditional clothing on Inis Oírr
- ^ Coughlan, Dan. Curator of Textiles, Paisley Museum, Scotland. 2016
- ^ Owens, Mary. Stitches in Time: Exhibition of Traditional Clothing on Inis Oírr. Inis Oírr, Galway: Áras Éana. 2011