Record number GP47         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name cables & herringbone & diagonal bars & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous         Other name Edie Middleton knitted for Strangers' Hall         Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, herringbone or diagonal bars bisected by a cable, which has no outside border stitches, alternating with moss stitch columns, from a Sheringham style gansey that was knitted for Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich in 1956 by Edie Middleton, a celebrated knitter in Sheringham         Association           Corporate body commisioned by : Strangers' Hall Museum         Date 1956         Association           Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Note Intended as a representative example of a typical Sheringham gansey, although nothing like this is known from Sheringham.         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter : Middleton, Edith Blanche ("Edie", nee Holsey)             Address Regis Place, Sheringham             Birth place & Hindolveston & Norfolk             Birth date 1878             Death date 1961             Death place           Date 1956         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Technical data 12 spi, 17 rpi             Note3 tension         Note Mini biography in 'Sheringham Ganseys' by Taylor et al, Sheringham Museum, 2017. She was paid £4-0-0 for knitting the gansey. A letter commisioning the gansey and her reply are preserved in the Norfolk Museums Service records. (scan o these held at Sheringham Museum).This pattern is probably unique, as it was knitted specificaly for Norwich City Museums but it is typical of the style in that the yoke pattern alternates two motifs A, B, A, B etc. The herringbone has a centre of an un-bounded rope which is not known in Sheringham ganseys otherwise but similar patterns do appear on a Whitby fisherman (Frank Meadow Sutcliffe photograph) and in Polperro (Lewis Harding photograph).         Preproduction           Simple name sweater         Full name gansey         Reference number NWHCM : 1956.99         Note Norfolk Museums Service         Photography           Type digitised image       sh_em1.jpg         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Date 12.3.2019         Documentation         GP47.jpg         Reference number GP47_chart.pdf         Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin : 19.11.2017