| Record number | GP56 |
| Identification | |
| Simple name | gansey pattern |
| Full name | zigzag & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous |
| Other name | Sheringham fisherman lightning and hailstones gansey (fisherman #5 ) |
| Classified name | 4.151.721 |
| System | SHIC |
| Brief description | Gansey pattern, hand knitted lightning and hailstones gansey worn by an unknown Sheringham fisherman (number 5 back row) in a studio photograph of 12 Sheringham fishermen about 1900 |
| Association | |
| Nature | wearer |
| Person | fisherman : |
| Note3 | Not John 'Teapot' West (information from Barbara West) |
| Place | & Sheringham & Norfolk |
| Activity | fishing |
| Date | 1900 (c) |
| Note | Lightning and hailstones was a pattern worn by members of the West family (e.g. Jimmy 'Paris' by Augusta West, 1912; John 'Teapot' by Rachel West, 1915). So this Sheringham fisherman might be a member of the West family. |
| Production | |
| Method | hand knitted |
| Person | knitter : |
| Date | 1900 (pre) |
| Place | & Sheringham & Norfolk |
| Technical data | 9 spi, 15 rpi |
| Note3 | tension (estimated) |
| Note | Yoke width : 13 zigzags x 6 sts = 78. 14 moss stitch x 6 = 84. Total 162 plus 2 seams sts = 164 x 2 = 328 = 82 ribs. = 36.5 inch chest. Yoke height : 20 zigzags = 200 rows = 13.3 inches (it does come down quite low) |
| Preproduction | |
| Simple name | photograph |
| Full name | b/w studio photograph |
| Reference number | CRRMU : CP1753 |
| Note | Copied 1986 by 5x4 negative. Seemingly taken at Grimsby. Photo by Hellis and Sons, London-based photographers who had many studios in the provinces. |
| Photography | |
| Type | digitised image |
 1753_5.jpg |
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| Research | |
| Result | pattern chart |
| Person | charted by : Warren, Martin |
| Person | swatch knitted by : Smith, Val |
| Date | 9.8.2019 |
| Documentation | |
 GP56.jpg |
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| Reference number | GP56_chart.pdf |
| Documentation group | |
| Documentation | |
| Link | shering.html |
| Recorder | Warren, Martin : 4.10.2019 |
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