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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The gansey jumper was traditionally worn by Plymouth's fishers - usually men - with a different pattern to represent each fishing village and family (Image: The Conscious Sisters CIC) (Image: The ...

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 ...