Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection; Gray's School of Art Graphic Design Collection
Object Type: Photograph
Artist/Maker: unknown
Place Made: Gray's School of Art
Media/Materials: ink on paper
Dimensions: overall: 17.5 cm x 24 cm
Classification: Design: Graphics

Description:

3/4 of a series of close up photographs of traditional Fair Isle pattern jumpers from the Scottish Knitwear Series. Text reads:
Man’s sweater, hand knitted in Bigton, Shetland.
A variant on traditional fairisle banding, the main pattern being 9 rows interspersed with 5 row borders. The shaded ribbing incorporating all the colours used in the garment is a traditional feature. As in all true fairisles the sweater is hand knitted in the round and has now side seams.
Scottish Knitwear Series
Photo Paper Sky Archive
Printed by Halcon of Stonehaven
For Paper Sky
Dess Station, Aboyne, Scotland

Object Number: ABDRG2016.436.2