Episode 130 Irish Songs & "The Galway Shawl" & The Rest of the Story.
The story of the Galway Shawl begins in Ancient Babylon, with the creation of the curved teardrop/pine cone fabric design, often referred to as "buta” There is also a kind of mystery and a poetry surrounding these late 19th Century shawls. Galway Shawl stories are full of love, emotion, history and music. This Galway Shawl story travelled from Babylon through a small town called Paisley on the west coast of Scotland and later moved to the west coast of Ireland.