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 ...

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 ...

The Aran sweater is enjoying something of a revival after some lean times, thanks to fashion designers and Irish balladeers, … The Aran sweater is enjoying something of a revival after some lean times ...

When an early Aran handknit from 1941 goes on exhibition in MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York next month it will take its place on a world stage alongside more than a hundred items considered ...