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 ...

The Aran Islands are a trio of rocky outcroppings in the mouth of Galway Bay whose high cliffs and slate-coloured skies present a picture-postcard vision of rugged Irish beauty. With barely a thousand ...

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 ...

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 ...