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He started a craze for knitted jumpers by wearing a Fair Isle sweater to play golf at St Andrews in Scotland.\r\n  \r\nThis sweater is hand-knitted in stocking stitch with fine two-ply wool.  The garment is knitted in the round, without seams, up to the armholes and the arms are grafted on.\r\n\r\nThe grey ground is decorated with a Fair Isle pattern in blue, yellow, red, green, brown and black. However, in traditional knitting of this kind, the knitters use no more than two colours in one row. They use a plain stitch for the ground and a purl stitch for the coloured wools. This gives the overall striped effect to the ribbing that is typical of Shetland and Fair Isle knitting.","physicalDescription":"V-necked jumper hand-knitted in stocking stitch with two-ply wool. The grey ground is decorated with bands of traditional Fair Isle pattern in yellow and blue with smaller areas of green, red, brown and black. Long sleeves.\n\nThe ribbing at the neck, cuffs and bottom edges is a one and one rib. The plain stitches are all in grey wool and the pearl stitches are in the coloured wools for the striped effect. Seamless as it is knitted in the round and grafted at the shoulders, the sleeves are worked from stitches picked up around the armholes. 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