Jumper
ca. 1931 (made)
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This V-necked sweater follows the fashion created by the Prince of Wales in the 1920s. He started a craze for knitted jumpers by wearing a Fair Isle sweater to play golf at St Andrews in Scotland.
This sweater is hand-knitted in stocking stitch with fine two-ply wool. The garment is knitted in the round, without seams, up to the armholes and the arms are grafted on.
The grey ground is decorated with a Fair Isle pattern in blue, yellow, red, green, brown and black. However, in traditional knitting of this kind, the knitters use no more than two colours in one row. They use a plain stitch for the ground and a purl stitch for the coloured wools. This gives the overall striped effect to the ribbing that is typical of Shetland and Fair Isle knitting.
This sweater is hand-knitted in stocking stitch with fine two-ply wool. The garment is knitted in the round, without seams, up to the armholes and the arms are grafted on.
The grey ground is decorated with a Fair Isle pattern in blue, yellow, red, green, brown and black. However, in traditional knitting of this kind, the knitters use no more than two colours in one row. They use a plain stitch for the ground and a purl stitch for the coloured wools. This gives the overall striped effect to the ribbing that is typical of Shetland and Fair Isle knitting.
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-knitted wool |
| Brief description | Fair Isle jumper, hand-knitted wool, possibly by Tulloch of Shetland, Scotland, ca. 1931 |
| Physical description | V-necked jumper hand-knitted in stocking stitch with two-ply wool. The grey ground is decorated with bands of traditional Fair Isle pattern in yellow and blue with smaller areas of green, red, brown and black. Long sleeves. The ribbing at the neck, cuffs and bottom edges is a one and one rib. The plain stitches are all in grey wool and the pearl stitches are in the coloured wools for the striped effect. Seamless as it is knitted in the round and grafted at the shoulders, the sleeves are worked from stitches picked up around the armholes. The depth of the ribbing at the bottom edge and cuffs is approximately 1.5 inches and 1 inch at the neck. |
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| Credit line | Worn and given by Mr W. H. Nightingale |
| Summary | This V-necked sweater follows the fashion created by the Prince of Wales in the 1920s. He started a craze for knitted jumpers by wearing a Fair Isle sweater to play golf at St Andrews in Scotland. This sweater is hand-knitted in stocking stitch with fine two-ply wool. The garment is knitted in the round, without seams, up to the armholes and the arms are grafted on. The grey ground is decorated with a Fair Isle pattern in blue, yellow, red, green, brown and black. However, in traditional knitting of this kind, the knitters use no more than two colours in one row. They use a plain stitch for the ground and a purl stitch for the coloured wools. This gives the overall striped effect to the ribbing that is typical of Shetland and Fair Isle knitting. |
| Bibliographic reference | Hinchcliffe, Frances (ed.), Knit One, Purl One : Historic and Contemporary Knitting from the V&A's Collection. V&A, London, 1985
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| Accession number | T.363-1984 |
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