Ahab’s Aran Gansey is a hybrid of the traditional British seaman’s gansey and the Aran sweater. It is knit in the round, using traditional seamless gansey construction, but with thicker, “aran-weight” wool and more complex patterning common in Aran sweaters.

I chose to use Quince and Co. Osprey yarn for several reasons: some of them practical, others more emotional. Osprey is a traditional aran-weight yarn spun with three plies. The three plies make the yarn round and plump and ideally suited for cables. This yarn is also very soft and wonderful to knit and wear. Additionally, the yarn is made in the U.S. from ecologically responsible sources, and spun at a mill in New England that has been spinning yarn since before Herman Melville went to sea.