Knitting forums now feature young crafters not just rediscovering traditional patterns but reinventing them for modern times. Take the gansey sweater, a staple of 19th century British fishing ...

Ganseys had a specific pattern representing ... Sisters CIC also hope to knit a gansey for The Box where it will be preserved for future generations. The jumpers were usually dark blue and tightly ...

For generations, the traditional hand-knitted sweater was the herring ... “It takes a long time to knit a full-size gansey. So, we provided patterns for gansey herring, a pennant and little ...

The traditional navy blue jumpers ... there are patterns for gansey-inspired hot water bottle covers and a shopping bag. 'Knitting a gansey is very hard on the fingers because you're using ...

Also known as the guernsey, jersey and knit-frock, the gansey is a traditional fisherman’s sweater originating in the Channel ... so she copied a Cornish pattern from an old photograph. It set the ...

“And so we got Nora Woodhouse to knit prototypes.” Flamborough Marine has been for many years making the Gansey, a handmade sweater worn by fisherman knitted in one piece with different ...

The fishing families of the North East coast were close-knit communities ... fishing ganseys, or jumpers, distinctive to the individual port and knitter. These patterns did not appear in print ...