Record number GP39         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name hoop nets & diamonds & vertical &indigenous         Other name Esther Nurse's open meshes and hoop nets pattern         Named collection Michael Harvey collection         Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, a tesselated pattern devised and knitted by Esther Nurse of Lower Bodham about 1950; net mask columns with motifs of hoop nets (triangles of complex moss stitch with a bar across the top interpreted as symbolising the hoop nets formerly used for catching crabs)         Note This pattern was grossly mis-charted by Michael Harvey in Gladys Thompson (softback edition) and copied in several books without reference to the original for over 50 years until I published the correct chart (below) on 17.8.2019.         Note The original gansey contains an error in the sixth diamond from the bottom (on the side with one hole in it). A plain row has been inserted where it should not be. The effect is to raise the damond meshes by one row with respect to the hoop nets from then on upwards. This was at first interpreted as an 'improvement', as it evens up the spacing between the east-west points of the diamonds and the bars on the top of the hoop nets. However, once it was known that this adjustment was not extended to the other side of the gansey it was thought to simply be an error. It is doubtful if this has ever been noticed by anyone.         Association           Nature wearer         Person fisherman :         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date           Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter : Nurse, Esther (nee Middleton)             Birth date 1906             Birth place & Sheringham & Norfolk             Death date 1970             Death place Lower Bodham         Date 1950 (c)         Place & Lower Bodham & Norfolk         Technical data 12 spi, 17 rpi             Note3 tension         Note           Preproduction           Simple name gansey         Full name           Reference number SHMMT : 2019.1.1         Note Michael Harvey collection         Photography         sm_en1.jpg             Institution3 Sheringham Museum (M. Warren)         Type digitised image         Photography           Type digitised image       170801.jpg             Institution3 Fibre Workshop       img_20170801_12165523331.jpg         Documentation https://fibreworkshop.co.uk/2017/08/         Note Blog: Dutch Ganseys at the Sheringham Museum. Photograph of the very gansey loaned by Michael Harvey for the exhibition.         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by : Smith, Val         Person swatch knitted by : Capon, Judy         Date 17.8.2019         Documentation         GP39.jpg         Reference number GP39_chart.pdf         Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for : Sheringham Museum         Person knitter : Smith, Val         Date requested 2018         Dimensions 34 cm x 34 cm         Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin : 19.11.2017         Documentation group           Reference Thompson, Gladys : 1979 : Patterns for Guernseys, Jerseys and Arans : Dover Publications : : chapter added by Michael Harvey of Great Yarmouth             Note3 Fisherman's gansey in typical; pattern worn by fishermen at Sheringham. This was knitted by Mrs Esther Nurse of Lower Bodham (a Sheringham lady) about 1950. It was knitted in Patons 4-ply Behive fingering at a tension of 12 stitches and 20 rows to the inch. It took about ten to twleve weeks to knit.Her father actually died wearing a gansey like this, it having to be cut off him as the gansey fitted like a glove. Five needles were used in the making size 15 to 16.         Reference Taylor, Rita et al : 2017 : Sheringham Ganseys : : Sheringham Museum Noorfolk Trust Ltd :         Reference Comton, Rae : 1985: Traditional Gurnesey and Jersey Knitting : : Batsford :         Reference Pearson, Michael : 1984 : Michael Pearson's Traditional Knitting, Aran, Fair Isle and Fisher Ganseys : : Dover :         Reference Gilpin, Di and Greenwell, Sheila : 2021 : The Gansey Knitting Sourcebook : : David and Charles : A small section is devoted to this pattern and its misinterpretation for over 50 years unil I corrected it.         Notes