| Record number | GP71 |
| Related record | GP96 |
| Identification | |
| Simple name | gansey pattern |
| Full name | cables & seeds and bars & garter stitch & commercial |
| Other name | James 'Duggie' Carter's cables, seeds and bars gansey |
| Named collection | |
| Classified name | 4.151.721 |
| System | SHIC |
| Brief description | Gansey pattern, Duggie Carter's cables and seed stitch gansey; photographed in King's Lynn, 1905; a commercially hand-knitted garment most likely bought at a marine outfitters (that is, not a community-made gansey or native King's Lynn pattern). |
| Association | |
| Nature | wearer |
| Person | fisherman : Carter, James Edward Bouch "Duggie" |
| Place | North End & King's Lynn & Norfolk |
| Site name | Tilden Smith public house |
| Activity | fishing |
| Date | 1905 |
| Production | |
| Method | hand knitted |
| Person | knitter : |
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| Date | 1905 (pre) |
| Note3 | Given that the gansey seen in the photograph has a hole at the neck it is not new, so could have been knitted around 1900 or earlier. The left-hand thread to the cable is more typical for Norfolk, as opposed to the right-hand three normally used in Yorkshire. It is apparently a commercial pattern as an identical example has also been seen on a wherryman in a photograph (see GP96). |
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| Technical data | 7.2 spi |
| Note3 | tension (estimated; 5-ply worsted) |
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| Preproduction | |
| Simple name | photograph |
| Full name | newspaper article |
| Reference number | edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/king-s-lynn-pub-where-fishermen-sangfto-ralph-vaughan-635938 |
| Note | Eastern Daily Press. Photo with singer Thomas Anderson (left), James 'Duggie' Carter and Rev Edward Edwards (right) in the 'Tilden Smith' public house, King's Lynn where Ralph Vaughan Williams listened to their singing and collected the folk songs |
| Photography | |
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| Institution3 | EDP |
| Type | digitised image |
| Photography | |
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| Institution3 | EDP |
| Type | digitised image |
| Research | |
| Result | pattern chart |
| Person | charted by : Warren, Martin |
| Person | swatch knitted by : |
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| Documentation | |
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| Reference number | GP71_chart.pdf |
| Reproduction | |
| Type | copy |
| Corporate body | for : True's Yard Museum |
| Person | knitted by : Midgley, Pat |
| Date requested | 1988 (?) |
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| Documentation | |
| Link | lynn.html |
| Recorder | Warren, Martin : 22.5.2021 |
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| Note3 | |
| Notes | Perhaps the most famous gansey associated with King's Lynn, promoted by Pat Midgeley who founded True's Yard and a gansey she charted and knitted which is on display at the entrance today (2011). There may well have been ganseys knitted in the North End of King's Lynn but apparently, this is not one of them, as an identical pattern also appears on a wherrymen (GP96), who plied his trade on the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads |
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