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 ...

By the late 1960s the cable knit sweater, much like the sailor stripe, had become a classic in more patrician circles on this side of the ocean. Its reputation was further buoyed by the impeccably ...

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 ...

Year after year, the internet awaits for the first breath of autumn air to declare the beginning of sweater weather. With the quick-paced nature of the trend cycle, it is inevitable that a new ...

If any designer has given an Irish national symbol a completely new look, it is the Galway knit genius Colin Burke. His reimagining of the Aran sweater with a stylish new silhouette, signature leg o’ ...

NOTHING READS laid-back elegance in cold weather quite like cable knit sweaters. A timeless knitwear style, men’s cable knit sweaters use raised, textured stitches that cross over each other to ...