Meatag, and its fingerless version Mútan, are mittens worked in the round, featuring the traditional Celtic six cable braid known as the Saxon braid.

Meatag and Mútan are worked in the round from the bottom up, featuring a repeating charted cable pattern up the back of the arm and hand, and shallow thumb gussets and ribbed thumbs for a delicate fit. Separate instructions are given for the full mitten and fingerless options, with the full mitten ending by grafting the top stitches together in a curve that mimics the shape of the cable.

Meatag and Mútan are the Scottish Gaelic words for mitten and fingerless glove. Before moving to Canada, my grandmother grew up in Scotland, and spoke Gaelic as her native language. While she taught me other aspects of our heritage, such as Highland dancing, she did not pass down her language to my mother, or to me. I name these mittens in Gaelic as a small act of decolonization, as an act of relearning the colonized language of my ancestors.