Isle of Wight Ganseys
Recreating Traditional Hand-knitted Ganseys
Hello, and welcome to this newsletter,
My aim with this Substack is to document my attempts to recreate traditional hand-knitted Gansey jumpers from historic photographs from the Isle of Wight.
At the moment I am aiming to send emails every two weeks, charting my progress and which image I am working from.
If you have any photographs of Fishermen, Lifeboat crews, Sailors, and Longshoremen in your family archives I would love you to share them with me.
In my next missive, I will explain how this photograph led me to a huge research rabbit hole.
Until then, stay well, and keep knitting.
Yours in Yarn
Tracy x