Record number GP63         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name cables & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous         Other name King Kong Grice's coil o'rope and hailstones gansey (fisherman #12)         Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, hand knitted vertical coil o'rope and hailstones gansey worn by Robert Henry 'King Kong' Grice (number 2 front row) in a studio photograph of 12 Sheringham fishermen about 1900         Association           Nature wearer         Person fisherman : Grice, Robert Henry 'King Kong'         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date 1900 (c)         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter :         Date 1900 (pre)         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Technical data 8.5 spi             Note3 tension (estimated). If the chest is 36 inches tension is 8.44 spi. If the chest is 35 inches (quite possible, he was young and thin) tension is 8.7. We’ll say approximately 8.5 spi or more.         Note           Preproduction           Simple name photograph         Full name b/w studio photograph         Reference number CRRMU : CP1753         Note Copied 1986 by 5x4 negative. Possibly taken at Grimsby. Photo by Hellis and Sons, London-based photographers who had many studios.         Photography           Type digitised image       1753_12.jpg         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by : Smith, Val         Date 9.8.2019         Documentation         GP63.jpg         Reference number GP63_chart.pdf         Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin : 9.10.2019