Record number GP72         Identification           Simple name gansey pattern         Full name diamonds & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous         Other name Jenny Griffin's Flamborough gansey         Named collection           Classified name 4.151.721             System SHIC         Brief description Gansey pattern, Jenny Griffin's Flamborough diamonds and moss stitch gansey, professionally knitted about 1948, Flamborough, Yorkshire; dark navy 5-ply 'Seamen's Iron' worsted; 8.25 stitches per inch; 6 columns of single moss meshes; 7 columns of single moss, front and back; wide false seam, stand up collar; underarm gusset; 5 rig shoulder stap; 1 inch plain below yoke; 3 inch welt         Association           Nature wearer         Person artist & theatre designer : Griffin, Jenny & Webster, Jenny (nee)             Birth date 15.12.1920             Death date 14.9.2013         Place & Bridlington & Yorkshire         Activity fishing         Date 1948 = 1950 (c)         Production           Method hand knitted         Person knitter :         Date 1948 = 1950 (c)         Place & Flamborough & Yorkshire         Technical data 8.33 spi (5-ply worsted 'Fisherman's Iron')             Note3 tension         Note Errors: there is a random column of purl stitches in the centre of one side in the plain band below the yoke; while the moss columns are generally 6 stitches wide, one of them increases to 7 stitches about 5 inches up the yoke; the 9th row of meshes up from the bottom of the yoke is larger, having not the normal 8 bobbles on each edge but 9, or 10, so that it occupies the whole width of the column; there are numerous mis-shapen meshes due to extra purl stitches for part of the height; the spaces between the meshes is sometimes 2 rows and sometimes 3.         Note Collar: stand up collar 2 inches high         Note False seam : k2, p1, k2, p1, k2         Note Repairs: black wool reinforcing the edge of the cuffs         Description           Part:aspect:desc chest : circumference : 37 inches         Part:aspect:desc back : height : 20 inches         Part:aspect:desc yoke : height : 16 inches         Part:aspect:desc plain : height : 1 inch         Part:aspect:desc welt : height : 3 inches         Part:aspect:desc collar : height : 2 inches         Part:aspect:desc sleeve : length : 14.5 inches         Preproduction           Simple name gansey         Full name Yorkshire gansey         Reference number               Institution3 Sheringham Museum         Note Donated to Sheringham Museum         Photography         IMG_20191012_204459.jpg             Institution3 MRW         Photograph number GP72_1.jpg         Type digitised image         Photography         IMG_20210430_162635_resized.jpg             Institution3 MRW       GP72_2.jpg             Institution3 MRW         Photograph number GP72_2.jpg         Type digitised image         Photography         IMG_20191013_152535.jpg             Institution3 MRW         Photograph number GP72_3.jpg         Type digitised image         Photography         IMG_20191013_152844.jpg             Institution3 MRW         Photograph number GP72_4.jpg         Type digitised image         Summary descript           Photography         IMG_20191012_180401.jpg             Institution3 MRW         Photograph number GP72_5.jpg         Type digitised image         Summary descript Painting by Jenny Griffin of the crew of the motor vessel 'Pride of Bridlington' baiting lines with mussels         Research           Result pattern chart         Person charted by : Warren, Martin         Person swatch knitted by :         Date           Documentation         GP72.jpg         Reference number GP72_chart.pdf         Reproduction           Type sampler         Corporate body for :         Person knitted by :         Date requested           Dimensions           Documentation group           Documentation           Link other_ganseys.html         Acquisition           Method           Person from : Griffin, Penny             Phone             Address             Address         Date 10.2018         Note daughter of John and Jenny Griffin         Recorder Warren, Martin : 17.8.2021         Documentation group           Reference               Note3           Notes Jenny Griffin (nee Webster) was a volunteer at Cromer Museum in the 1980s and 1990s and she lent this gansey to the museum for many years (E7701). After the Second World War she had been a theatre designer in the repertory theatre in Bridlington. She was friendly with the fishermen of Bridlington, especially the crew of the M.V. Pride of Bridlington, namely Charlie Newby (boyfriend), George 'Nasher' Broadbent, Stan Clarke, Maurice ?, Freddie Burdall and Tom Collins. She did an oil painting featuring this crew at work baiting lines and at the time of writing it hangs in the staircase of the cottage in Chapel Street, Cromer where Jenny and John Griffin used to live (now Penny's). She had the gansey knitted for her by the same professional source in Flamborough that the Bridlington fishermen obtained theirs.         Note           Notes Jenny Griffin told me that it was knitted for her by a professional in Flamborough, where the fishermen of Bridlington got theirs. The numerous errors in the knitting are further indication that this was commercially produced, knitted for a price, at great speed and errors going un-corrected. It was presumably thought to be plenty good enough by the knitter (for the money) and an authentic, endearing example of a professionally knitted Yorkshire gansey..         Notes This is a good comparison with Sheringham ganseys. Firstly it is much courser being 8.25 spi and made of the usual yarn for Yorkshire - very hard 'Seaman's Iron' 5-ply worsted-spun yarn. Secondly, being professionally knitted (and perhaps because it was knitted for a stranger or an outsider) it is riddled with errors. Most likely this gansey was knitted for a fixed price and the knitter evidently did not have the time or the inclination to go back and correct errors. While this does not detract from the overall effect or the practicality of the gansey it does not have the sense of pride or care that invariably goes into Sheringham examples. Mistakes in Sheringham ganseys are rare and never obvious. In Jenny Griffins gansey errors are widespread. There are 72 meshes on each side. On one side there are 23 meshes that are mis-shapen because they have the wrong number of stitches in them (7, 9 or 10 rows per side when the correct number is 8).. On the other side there are 14 mis-shapen meshes. That is a very high error rate and surely indicates the time pressure the knitter was under. She may have had lots of work to do besides knitting, running the household, caring for children, possibly helping her husband if he was a fishermen in baiting lines or shucking mussels for bait.