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 ...

There’s no better way to keep warm in winter than by donning an Aran sweater or an Irish knit cardigan. Aran sweaters, which take their name from the three Aran Islands of Inishmore, Inishmaan and ...

The Aran Islands are a group of three small islands located off the west coast of Ireland in Galway Bay. The three islands are Inis Mór (meaning “big island”), Inis Meáin (meaning “middle island”), ...

An Aran sweater wedding dress? If the very thought conjures memories of that beautiful but rather itchy woolen sweater your mother made you wear for family photos, think again! Don O’Neill, the Kerry ...

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 ...

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The white Aran sweater, like much of Driver’s wardrobe in House of Gucci, was made especially for him. Yates had about 10 different turtleneck sweaters in different styles— Fair Isle and Shetland ...