The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53303 Message #3904654
Posted By: Steve Gardham
09-Feb-18 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: Hot Ash-Pelt (Hot Asphalt)
Subject: RE: DTStudy: Hot Ash-Pelt (Hot Asphalt)
Gansey's were specific to fishing communities around the British coast.
They were knitted with a special type of oily wool, very close knit, so that they were to a degree waterproof. Each area or fishing community had its own pattern so that any drowned fishermen washed up (and there were many) could be recognised immediately as from a specific place.
They're bloody expensive as well!, but rightly so.