Record number GP73
   
    Identification  
        Simple name gansey pattern
        Full name diamonds & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous
        Other name Harry 'Duncan' Cooper's meshes and moss stitch gansey
        Named collection  
        Classified name 4.151.721
            System SHIC
        Brief description Gansey pattern, Harry 'Duncan' Cooper's navy blue gansey; garter stitch meshes alternating with moss stitch columns; deciphered from a photograph by Michael Pearson, Sheringham, 1982; over 30 years old
   
    Association  
        Nature wearer
        Person fisherman : Cooper, Harry 'Duncan'
        Place Cliff Road & Sheringham & Norfolk
        Activity fishing
        Date 1982
        Note inherited gansey from his father 30 years prior to the photograph
   
    Association  
        Nature previous owner
        Person fisherman : Cooper, John 'Duncan'
            Note3 father of Harry 'Duncan' Cooper
        Place & Sheringham & Norfolk
        Activity fishing
        Date 1950 = 1959 (1950s)
   
    Production  
        Method hand knitted
        Person knitter :
            Birth date  
            Birth place & Norfolk
            Death date  
            Death place  
        Date 1940 = 1952 (estimate)
        Place & Sheringham & Norfolk
        Technical data 12 spi (estimate)
            Note3 tension
        Note Typical Sheringham design (cf. Edie Middleton)
   
    Preproduction  
        Simple name gansey
        Full name  
        Reference number  
        Note owned by Harry 'Duncan' Cooper; inherited from his father 30 years before photograph was taken
   
    Photography  
   
 
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            Institution3 Michael Pearson
   
 
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            Institution3 MRW
        Type digitised image
   
    Photography  
        Type b/w photograph (print)
        Reference number 328
            Institution3 Michael Pearson
                Note4 Jesmond Gates, Newcastle
        Documentation  
        Note Photographed 24.2.1982 during research tour for book Michael Pearson's Traditional Knitting. Aran, Fair Isle and Fisher Ganseys. 1983; photographic print gifted to Cromer Museum by Michael Pearson (unaccessioned) 1982.
   
    Research  
        Result pattern chart
        Person charted by : Warren, Martin
        Person swatch knitted by : Smith, Val
        Date 20.8.2021
        Documentation  
   
 
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        Reference number GP73_chart.pdf
   
    Reproduction  
        Type sampler
        Corporate body for :
        Person knitted by :
        Date requested  
        Dimensions  
   
    Documentation group  
        Documentation  
        Link shering.html
   
    Recorder Warren, Martin : 17.8.2021
   
    Documentation group  
        Reference  
            Note3  
   
    Notes