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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Was I an Irish fisherman in a past life? Did I spend the 20th century on a boat, out in the cold, clad in a warm, cozy, Aran sweater that my wife knit for me? I'm kind of convinced I was, given how ...

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 ...