The stitch patterns, such as anchors, diamonds, cables, lightning, ropes and ladders, symbolised the everyday things in the fisherfolk's lives. Telling of their tools, harvest and the weather.

The project has also shone light on the common threads that connected hard-working fishing communities the length and breadth of the land, with motifs and patterns that told stories of their homes ...

Take the gansey sweater, a staple of 19th century British fishing communities—once a symbol of practicality and hard work, now the inspiration for numerous popular and fashionable knitting patterns.

An image from the Johnston Collection showing local fishermen wearing ganseys. Picture reproduced courtesy of the Wick Society / Johnston Collection "It's probably the first time this time this ...

Children’s author, knitwear designer and pattern book writer Tina helps to keep the flag flying in the 21st century by offering her own gansey patterns on her website, as well as less taxing ...

Maybe you have a 100-year-old ‘gansey’ like the ones in these Polperro archive photos hiding in your attic?