Record number GP86         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name diamonds & arrows & chevrons & vertical         Other name Sheringham meshes, arrows and chevrons gansey         Named collection           Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, fine Sheringham meshes, arrows and chevrons gansey, 1960s or 1970s         Association           Nature wearer         Person fisherman :         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date 1960 = 1979         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter :             Note3 Mother of Mrs Jane Rayner         Date 1960 = 1979         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Technical data 12 spi             Note3 tension         Note           Preproduction           Simple name gansey         Full name           Reference number           Note Loaned to Propagansey exhibition 2022, per Deb Gillanders.         Photography           Person photographer : Gillanders, Deb       IMG-20220920-WAD0002.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0003.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0004.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0005.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0006.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0009.jpg             Institution3         IMG-20220920-WAD0010.jpg             Institution3           Type digitised image         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by :         Date           Documentation         GP86.jpg         Reference number GP86_chart.pdf         Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for :         Person knitted by :         Date requested           Dimensions           Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin : 29.11.2022         Documentation group           Reference               Note3           Notes Who was the fisherman who owned this gansey and who might the knitter have been? We do not know the name of the first owner at the present time but I might speculate as to the knitter. By 1970, around the time this gansey was knitted, the craft was dying out. There were fewer ganseys being knitted and few active knitters. Ann West was one, knitting for her husband Lennie ~Teapot~ West. Edie Middleton might still have been knitting. Another I have heard of was Lizzie Mason, a jolly lady who appeared in a local newspaper article but which I don~t have a copy of (can anybody help me here?). If my memory serves me correctly, the late Roger Chamberlain, A dry, witty Shannock, bank worker and writer, once told me that while Lizzie made good ganseys, she didn~t knit in the conventional way, that is, in the round but sewed up the seams afterwards. I believe she knitted Roger a gansey, which he wore when we sailed together around the Hebrides with Jim and Brenda Hare from Cromer. I should have paid more attention. A few hints in the photographs above from Deb Gillanders suggest that there aren~t any false seams up the sides but sewn seams that draw the knitted fabric into a downfold. The sleeves too appear to be attached to the body by sewing rather than being picked up and knitted down. Likewise, the join at the centre of the shoulder strap doesn~t produce a ridge on the outside with the usual three-needle bind off but is perhaps joined with a seam hidden on the inside. This is thin evidence to be sure but the number of knitters was becoming quite limited by the 1960s and 70s. Maybe this, and GP87, are examples of Lizzie Mason~s work.