A gansey (or guernsey) is a hardwearing, hand knitted, woollen jumper which has been worn by fishermen around the coast of Britian for many years. A tough weatherproof garment, usually navy blue ...

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.

Mens vintage cable knit sweaters have a long history. They are heavy sweaters originally worn by fisheman. Traditionally made in Ireland and known as a gansey jumper, they are sometimes called Aran ...

Knitted in fine yet deceptively tough navy blue, grey, dark red or cream fine 5-ply wool to defend against the biting wind and the sting of the sea spray, their elaborate patterns were not mere ...

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 ...

Famed for its indigo shade of the ocean and its place-specific knit pattern, the iconic sweater known as ‘the gansey’ has been worn by Cornish sailors on seaward journeys since the 18th century. In ...

There are a number of Gansey designs, as each fishing community had its own identifiable patterns that were fixed by the beginning of the nineteenth century. The designs were inspired by seafaring ...

Every brigade member was measured for a gansey, which is an update on the original dating from 1866. Each took between 55 and 70 hours to knit, and there are examples on show at South Shields ...

More than 60 of the hand-knitted, intricately patterned woollen jumpers are on show - draped across the seafront museum's eight-strong fleet of historic lifeboats and fishing boats and hanging in ...