Record number GP100         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name meshes & double moss & vertical & indigenous         Other name Harry Billy West's meshes and double moss gansey by Eliza Tabitha West         Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, Eliza Tabitha West's meshes and double moss gansey for Harry Billy West         Note           Association           Nature           Person fish merchant : West, Henry William (Harry Billy)         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date 1930 = 1939 (1930s)         Note Harry Billy must have been quite young, or a very small man, as this is only a 34 inch chest         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter : West, Eliza Tabitha (née Little)             Birth date               Birth place & & Yorkshire             Death date               Death place           Date 1930 = 1939 (1930s)         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Technical data 11.5 spi             Note3 tension (measured)         Note The late Hazel Cheney (25 Demorley Garth, Sheringham): She was Eliza Tabitha West's graddaughter, and says in an oral history recording that Eliza travelled to Great Yarmouth with others from Sheringham to see friends they had made among the Scots herring lasses and they exchanged knitting ideas, including the use of the leather knitting belt and the buttoned neck (as seen in this gansey). On the inside, there are 23 ends where relatively short lengths of yarn have been joined and some of them have been sewn in very neatly. . This shows that she was thrifty and was using up the ends of 24 balls of wool to make this gansey. This an important point of similarity with the gansey GP90, which also uses short ends, all very neatly sewn in and is also thought to have been knitted by Eliza West.         Preproduction           Simple name gansey         Full name           Reference number SHMMT : 2017.2         Note Beautifully knitted very fine gansey in 3-ply worsted; excellent condition. One inch welt k2p2. 15 meshes high. 3 rigs at the start of the yoke. Nine meshes wide, 10 double moss columns. Double false seam of garter stitch. Chest 34 inches. Height 20 inches. Sleeve 16.75 inches.         Description           Part:dimen:reading chest : circumference : 34 inches         Part:dimen:reading : weight : 532 g         Part:dimen:reading sleeve : length : 16.75 inches         Photography           Type pattern chart       GP100.jpg         Photography           Type digitised image       GP100_1.jpg             Number3 20230221_125809.jpg             Institution3         GP100_2.jpg             Number3 20230221_132916.jpg             Institution3         GP100_3.jpg             Number3 20230221_133032.jpg             Institution3         GP100_4.jpg             Number3 20230221_133200.jpg             Institution3         GP100_5.jpg             Number3 20230221_133211.jpg             Institution3         GP100_6.jpg             Number3 20230221_133305.jpg             Institution3         GP100_7.jpg             Number3 20230221_133412.jpg             Institution3         GP100_8.jpg             Number3 20230221_133441_001.jpg             Institution3         GP100_9.jpg             Number3 20230221_133441_001.jpg             Institution3         GP100_10.jpg             Number3 20230221_133412.jpg             Institution3         GP100_11.jpg             Number3 20230221_133517.jpg             Institution3         GP100_12.jpg             Number3 20230221_133540.jpg             Institution3         GP100_13.jpg             Number3 20230221_133641.jpg             Institution3         GP100_14.jpg             Number3 20230221_133731.jpg             Institution3         GP100_15.jpg             Number3 20230221_133800.jpg             Institution3         GP100_16.jpg             Number3 20230221_133928.jpg             Institution3         GP100_17.jpg             Number3 20230221_133948_010.jpg             Institution3         GP100_18.jpg             Number3 20230221_133957.jpg             Institution3           Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by :         Date           Documentation           Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for :         Person knitted by :         Date requested           Dimensions           Documentation group           Class pattern chart         Reference number GP100_chart.pdf         Documentation group           Documentation           Note Taped conversation with Hazel Cheney on ganseys; St Joseph's Road, Sheringham, Norfolk; talking with Martin Warren, curator of Cromer Museum; asking what made her go into the wool business; she had learnt to knit at 12, grandmother Eliza Tabitha West and two aunts who knitted; two gansey knitters next door to grandmother; Sarah Ann and Betsy Spruce who knitted all the time; between them and her grandmother she knitted her first jumper for herself at 12 years of age         Reference number CRRMU : TR4         Reference number TR4 Part 1.mp3         Reference number TR4 Part 2.mp3         Link shering.html         Documentation group           Reference 20211008_144228.jpg             Note3 Snapshot of a hand drawn chart by Martin Warren, Cromer Museum, file of notes on Ganseys         Recorder Warren, Martin : 22.2.2023         Documentation group           Link shering.html         Notes           Admin status           Status2 validated         Date 1.4.2023