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

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 ...

Stacia Briggs discovers more about the traditional knitted ... there are patterns for gansey-inspired hot water bottle covers and a shopping bag. 'Knitting a gansey is very hard on the fingers ...

One traditional Filey pattern has a zigzag design called ... Lesley’s business supplying authentic hand-knitted ganseys and gansey knitting kits alongside Armor Lux striped cotton Breton ...

The traditional ... to piece together the pattern that would have been worn over a hundred years ago. Thirty ganseys are now well underway through the "Gansey Gathering" knitting project run ...

Typical gansey patterns It takes around six weeks to knit a gansey by hand ... Telling of their tools, harvest and the weather. It became traditional for the knitter to put in a number of ...

The jerseys were expertly crafted with seamless knitting ... Gansey Organisation said that “the patterning on ganseys was used to reflect a fisherman’s daily life. “For this reason, patterns ...

Ms Gilpin, who runs her own knitwear design company, said: "The designers have taken a huge risk in using traditional gansey knit stitchwork ... highly decorative patterns were added.

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