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 ...

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It's no propagansey, they were the garments that truly were a fisherman's friend. Stacia Briggs discovers more about the traditional knitted gansey. At the mercy of the elements, fishermen have ...

Take a walk through historic Scarborough > Each gansey has a unique pattern which varied from village to village and from family to family. If there was a shipwreck or accident the bodies washed ...

A decade before sitting down to write the book, Mrs Wright had resolved to knit her first gansey, yet couldn’t find any written instructions, so she copied a Cornish pattern from an old photograph. It ...

It was likely to be knitted by a loved one and carried a pattern characteristic of the fishing port or the family. Ganseys could be found all round the North Sea from the early 19th century to the ...

They also had aesthetically distinctive patterns and symbols which served other vital roles for these fishing communities. Today, the Scottish Fisheries Museum has over fifty hand-knitted ganseys ...

"It's just a lovely thing." Using a traditional gansey pattern kept at the museum, they doubled the number of stitches to make it four times the usual jumper size. After some 768 hours knitting ...

Sheringham patterns only cover the yoke, or top half, of the gansey and a band at the top of the sleeves, usually consisting of alternating vertical stripes of stitch patterns.

Fingers flying, needles clicking, the fishermen’s best friends – their ganseys – took shape; warm, weatherproof pullovers with distinctive patterns that, should the worst happen, might well ...