tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post4466221488477845559..comments2024-03-11T11:38:56.028-07:00Comments on A Fisherman Knits: More on knitting for fishingAaronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-63933409702687267502013-05-31T22:51:26.840-07:002013-05-31T22:51:26.840-07:00It has an all-black black (matte) external casing,...It has an all-black black (matte) external casing, comprehensive with <br />a pop-up flash on the best. Mega pixels are how manufacturers measure the pixel count of an image created by a camera.<br />As you will see later other considerations like lenses, flash and battery are no less important.<br /><br /><br />My site: <a href="http://educinfos.solidairesdumonde.org/archive/2008/11/23/qu-est-ce-que-l-effet-de-serre-naturel.html" rel="nofollow">just click the up Coming post</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-32393163965845700292011-08-17T11:36:08.122-07:002011-08-17T11:36:08.122-07:00Dear Anonymous,
You are looking at photos taken 3...Dear Anonymous,<br /><br />You are looking at photos taken 300 years after the industry had peaked. After the adoption of long line fishing from dories circa 1650, the number of fishermen required dropped like a stone. Fewer fishermen meant less knitting. Then, in the 1800s, steam trawlers could catch huge numbers of fish with relatively few fishermen. Likewise, machine made nets allowed fishermen working in dories from a mother ship to catch huge numbers of fish like herring or salmon. By the time your photos were taken, the industry had fragmented, and one ship caught as many fish as a whole fleet of sailing ships with men jigging from deck. Thus, there were no longer ports dedicated to one kind of fishing. If the port's fishing industry has fragmented from a fleet of cod boats fishing one area to few cod trawlers, a few herring boats, and a couple of mackerel boats, then the local knitting has also changed. Likewise, If all the jobs in the port are related to cod fishing in Iceland, then the gansey designs will be more uniform than if the ships from that port scatter to the 7 seas to search for many different kinds of fish. You are looking at photos from the days when the boats scattered to look for different kinds of fish.<br /><br />After the steam engine, knit ganseys went from being a necessity to being love tokens (knit or purchased). (Which is not to say that a gansey is not a wonderful garment for any fisherman to have and wear.) Such love tokes were made possible by the advent of mill spun yarns. <br /><br />With mill spun, commercially knit ganseys were cheaper, and home knit ganseys could be knit faster and easier. How many love tokens would a woman knit for her men? <br /><br />If your woman knits you several love tokens, then you had better wear them - all of them in regular succession. If your mother, sister, and wife each knit you a jumper, then you have 3 jumpers that need to be worn to family occasions, and it would be well to wear a commercially knit gansey while actually at sea so as to keep the hand knit garments pristine for family occasions. <br /><br />Note, that I point out that there was a large industry on the Channel Islands knitting seaman's clothing as early as the 12th century. Fishing was commercial, and knitting fisherman's clothing was commercial. My understanding is that the early Channel Island product had technical advantages in spinning and knitting. <br /><br />However, “knit to fit” is also important with a gansey, and locally knit seamen's clothing could be knit to fit in ways that the commercial product could not.<br /><br />I am sure that a some seamen/fisherman on the Icelandic Cod Fleet sailing out of Norfolk in the 14th Century wore imported knit garments, but the majority of them wore garments that were knit to fit in the vicinity of Norfolk. Our records of professional contract knitters in the Dales circa 1840 show them to be spending half of their day doing farm chores. Thus, in 1840 there was not a bright line between knitting and doing other work. It is worth remembering that commercial and trade transactions occur within extended families. And, I submit that in 14th Century Norfolk, there were extensive networks of relationships, loving and otherwise. <br /><br />By the by, Except for the book "Cod" all of the references are free on the internet. : )Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150805906414546377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-26844873040477521772011-08-17T08:49:54.228-07:002011-08-17T08:49:54.228-07:00The trouble with that is - those of us who find ph...The trouble with that is - those of us who find photos of ganseys and research here "on the ground" realise one thing very quickly... You find the same ganseys over and over all over the country. Also, very few ports relied on one form of fishing. Stranger still, you can find images showing members of one family all of whom are wearing wildly different patterns. But records show they all worked the same vessel. On top of that - you can find images of the same bloke, taken just weeks apart, where he is wearing very different ganseys. If certain patterns worked better for certain types of fishing - you wouldn't have this great diversity within a single family, or crew, or individual. Most ganseys weren't knitted by loving family members - but were available commercially. And they may have been made 50 miles inland. And fishing towns had knitting schools where knitters were not taught, romantically, at their mother's knee but by knitting masters and mistresses. When I trace them, they often turn out to be farmers, or shoemakers' daughters, or... you name it. The theory sounds great but research proves it to be nothing more than wishful thinking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21068675.post-43598007838540309742011-08-14T10:25:33.385-07:002011-08-14T10:25:33.385-07:00Thanks for this text!
Your work with knitting and ...Thanks for this text!<br />Your work with knitting and testing is very important and I hope some person "higher up" is giving you credit for it.<br />It is very interesting to read about how different stitches can be used for different workers.<br />Summary, keep up the good work!StickLena =KnitLenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16342540516598991874noreply@blogger.com