This week, I started posting links to free patterns for Aran sweaters. These are cardigans and pullovers that have intricate cables and textures, similar to a style that developed on the Aran islands ...

Every stitch of an Isles of Aran sweater traces back to a language of patterns born on the rocky outcrops between Galway Bay and the Atlantic. Cable, honeycomb, and moss stitches carry meanings that ...

Today, I thought I’d revisit the controversial subject of how Aran kntting, that Irish fisherman tradition of intricate cables, got started. It’s not what you think. Heinz Edgar Kiewe invented the ...