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 ...

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 ...

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 ...