A sweater is a piece of clothing worn on the upper body to keep the person warm. Other names for sweaters are pullover, jersey, or jumper.
Among the many novelties the Crusaders brought back from the Orient was the sweater. Unaccustomed to the desert heat, the Crusaders sweltered inside their heavy armor, which already weighed them down. This made fighting all the more arduous. The short cotton coat their foes wore seemed, in comparison, light and cool. The obvious thing for the Crusaders to do was to adopt this jubbah, as the coat was called in Arabic. Thus they took both the garment and its name home with them to the West.
Though now a unisex sweater, totally different in cut and shape, made of wool and worn to keep warm, the jubbah - anglicized as jumper - remains a gift of the religious wars.
A lasting legacy of the Spanish Armada is the fairisle jumper, with its distinctive bold symmetrical patterns. It was knitted by the people of Fair Isle an island north of Scotland, which lies about halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney. On August 20, 1588 the flagship of the Spanish Armada, El Gran Grifón, was shipwrecked in the cove of Stroms Heelor, forcing its 300 sailors to spend six weeks living with the islanders. The islanders learned the design from the Spaniards wrecked on their shores.
The word 'jersey' for a woolen sweater was first recorded in 1837. Before that 'jersey' was used for any knitted item make from Jersey wool, especially stockings.
Sweaters that open in the front are often called cardigans. The cardigan was originally made to be a military jacket made of knitted wool. They are named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British general during the Crimean War, whose men wore them to keep warm.
All of Mr. Rogers cardigan sweaters worn on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas until she died in 1981.
A survey has shown blue to be the best-selling color in women's sweaters because women think men like it.
Source Europress Family Enyclopedia
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| Sweater from the Graham Leggate collection, Norwegian Selbu rose design |
Among the many novelties the Crusaders brought back from the Orient was the sweater. Unaccustomed to the desert heat, the Crusaders sweltered inside their heavy armor, which already weighed them down. This made fighting all the more arduous. The short cotton coat their foes wore seemed, in comparison, light and cool. The obvious thing for the Crusaders to do was to adopt this jubbah, as the coat was called in Arabic. Thus they took both the garment and its name home with them to the West.
Though now a unisex sweater, totally different in cut and shape, made of wool and worn to keep warm, the jubbah - anglicized as jumper - remains a gift of the religious wars.
A lasting legacy of the Spanish Armada is the fairisle jumper, with its distinctive bold symmetrical patterns. It was knitted by the people of Fair Isle an island north of Scotland, which lies about halfway between mainland Shetland and Orkney. On August 20, 1588 the flagship of the Spanish Armada, El Gran Grifón, was shipwrecked in the cove of Stroms Heelor, forcing its 300 sailors to spend six weeks living with the islanders. The islanders learned the design from the Spaniards wrecked on their shores.
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| Fair Isle knitwear in the Shetland Museum |
The word 'jersey' for a woolen sweater was first recorded in 1837. Before that 'jersey' was used for any knitted item make from Jersey wool, especially stockings.
Sweaters that open in the front are often called cardigans. The cardigan was originally made to be a military jacket made of knitted wool. They are named after James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a British general during the Crimean War, whose men wore them to keep warm.
All of Mr. Rogers cardigan sweaters worn on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas until she died in 1981.
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| Fred Rogers sweater |
A survey has shown blue to be the best-selling color in women's sweaters because women think men like it.
Source Europress Family Enyclopedia
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