This is a copy of an original gansey held in the archives of the Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Fife. Although the original was knitted in pink, you can knit it in any of Frangipani’s glorious colours. The herring girls gutted and packed the herring caught down the East coast of Scotland and England, moving South during the year with the shoals of ‘the Silver Darlings’.
Many of them wore their own versions of ganseys,
in a range of colours from navy to raspberry and pistachio.