Record number GP63
   
    Identification  
        Simple name gansey pattern
        Full name cables & moss stitch & vertical & indigenous
        Other name King Kong Grice's coil o'rope and hailstones gansey (fisherman #12)
        Classified name 4.151.721
            System SHIC
        Brief description Gansey pattern, hand knitted vertical coil o'rope and hailstones gansey worn by Robert Henry 'King Kong' Grice (number 2 front row) in a studio photograph of 12 Sheringham fishermen about 1900
   
    Association  
        Nature wearer
        Person fisherman : Grice, Robert Henry 'King Kong'
        Place & Sheringham & Norfolk
        Activity fishing
        Date 1900 (c)
   
    Production  
        Method hand knitted
        Person knitter :
        Date 1900 (pre)
        Place & Sheringham & Norfolk
        Technical data 8.5 spi
            Note3 tension (estimated). If the chest is 36 inches tension is 8.44 spi. If the chest is 35 inches (quite possible, he was young and thin) tension is 8.7. We’ll say approximately 8.5 spi or more.
        Note  
   
    Preproduction  
        Simple name photograph
        Full name b/w studio photograph
        Reference number CRRMU : CP1753
        Note Copied 1986 by 5x4 negative. Possibly taken at Grimsby. Photo by Hellis and Sons, London-based photographers who had many studios.
   
    Photography  
        Type digitised image
   
 
1753_12.jpg
   
    Research  
        Result pattern chart
        Person charted by : Warren, Martin
        Person swatch knitted by : Smith, Val
        Date 9.8.2019
        Documentation  
   
 
GP63.jpg
        Reference number GP63_chart.pdf
   
    Documentation group  
        Documentation  
        Link shering.html
   
    Recorder Warren, Martin : 9.10.2019