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.

So, we provided patterns for gansey herring, a pennant and little squares to give people the chance to try the knitting technique in an easier template than a full gansey. “We’ve had ...

Typical gansey patterns It takes around six weeks to knit a gansey by hand. They were usually made by mothers, wives and sweethearts and the patterns were passed down the generations via word of ...

Plymouth's lost fishing jumper is being knitted once more as part of a new project to teach people how to make them. The traditional garment of the city's fishers up until the 1970s, the gansey is ...

Rita Taylor set up the Gansey Scheme for the Knitting and Crochet Guild and is the author of several knitting books, including A Stitch in Time: Heirloom Knitting Skills.

These days, most traditional designs are reproduced on knitting machines, but according to Lesley Berry at Flamborough in East Yorkshire ‘a gansey is not a gansey unless it is hand knitted’. She is ...

Knit on the Prom runs on Saturday from 11am until 3pm. Volunteers will be on hand to help beginner knitters, with youngsters invited to create a pom pom. Traditional fishermen's ganseys on show at ...

Plymouth's lost fishing jumper is being knitted once more as part of a new project to teach people how to make them. The traditional garment of the city's fishers up until the 1970s, the gansey is ...

READ MORE: Thirty ganseys are now well underway through the "Gansey Gathering" knitting project run by the CIC, with 30 more knitters being recruited for a second course.