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The Aran jumper (Irish: Geansaí Árann), also called a fisherman's jumper, is a style of jumper [1] that takes its name from the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. [2][3] A traditional Aran Jumper usually is off-white in colour, with cable patterns on the body and sleeves. Originally the jumpers were knitted using unscoured wool that ...
[5] [2] Photographs of Diana wearing the sweater were circulated widely in the international media. Many members of the press speculated that the sweater was a metaphor, signaling to the world that Diana felt like the "black sheep" of the Royal Family. [1] [9] Diana wore the Warm & Wonderful sheep jumper again in 1983, eliciting further media ...
The black sheep sweater headlined Sotheby's inaugural Fashion Icons sale and far outsold its five-figure estimate. By Sept. 6, the sweater had reached an auction price of $70,000, Everett said on ...
The sweater was originally estimated to reach between $50,000 and $80,000, but after a total of 44 bids, the price reached 14 times higher than expected, according to Sotheby’s.
A jumper worn by Britain’s late Princess Diana and depicting a black sheep is headed for auction later this summer with a price estimate of up to $80,000. Designed by knitwear label Warm ...
The teaching of patterned sweater knitting is generally attributed to a settler from the Shetland Islands, Jerimina Colvin. [4] Mrs. Colvin settled in Cowichan Station in 1885, raised sheep, and hand-spun and dyed her own wool. She probably began to teach knitting by the 1890s, and added patterns as she learned them from other Scottish settlers ...