Record number GP27         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name diamonds & diagonal bars & crab pots & Betty Martin & vertical & indigenous         Other name Buster Long's Betty Martin and meshes gansey         Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, Betty Martin and crabpots (meshes with diagonal bars), worn by Buster Long, Sheringham fisherman; very fine knitting         Note Meshes have an unconventional bar added to the meshes which I interpret as representing the rope or tow that attached the pot to a buoy at the surface (for a single pot, also know as a 'swummer', used before pots were tied together in shanks on the seabed)         Association           Nature wearer         Person fisherman : Long, Buster         Place & Sheringham & Norfolk         Activity fishing         Date 1900 = 1910 (?)         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter :         Date           Place & &         Technical data 12 spi, 17 rpi             Note3 tension (estimated)             Note3 By comparison with the eyes (iris diameter, pupillary distance):12 stitches per inch. The yoke is quite tall:16 pattern repeats up the yoke = 16 x 14 = 224 rounds = 13 inches @ 17 rows per inch.         Note           Preproduction           Simple name photograph         Full name glass plate negative         Reference number CRRMU : 2008.14.108             Institution3 Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)         Note by Olive Edis         Preproduction           Simple name photograph         Full name warm-toned platinotype         Reference number CRRMU : 2008.14.1661         Note by Olive Edis         Photography           Type digitised image       CR10632.jpg             Institution3 Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)       CR08883.jpg             Institution3 Norfolk Museums Service (Cromer Museum)         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by : Smith, Val         Date 17.2.2018       GP27.jpg         Reference number GP27_chart.pdf         Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for : Sheringham Museum         Person knitter : Smith, Val         Dimensions 34 cm x 34 cm         Documentation group           Documentation           Link shering.html         Recorder Warren, Martin : 19.11.2017         Notes This is an unconventional design and at first I overlooked the extra bar leading off the top of the meshes. It was Val Smith who pointed it out and verified it in her second swatch. I find it It attractive exactly because it is unconventional. It is quite flat, as several Sheringham ganseys in Teapot West's collection are and finely knitted but the extra bar just changes the meshes sufficiently to give it a more tesselated feel. I feel it is worthy of being knitted into a whole gansey.