Norfolk gansey patterns

Wells-next-the-Sea

I have not found a lot of information about ganseys from Wells. The one I collected from David Cox, former coxswain the Wells lifeboat, was not knitted in the town, being either Sheringham or knitted by a Scots herring girl. There was a pattern "deciphered" from a photograph of the Wells lifeboat crew from the early 20th century and published by the proprietor of Cloister wool and craft shop as a Wells pattern but this was a mis-interpretation of the well-known machine-knitted waves or marriage lines.

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David Cooper's Wells-next-the Sea 'Betty Martin' and chequerboard pattern

Wells-next-the-Sea pre-1939 10 spi

Martin Warren, The Northfolk Project
20.11.2019