♡ Yarn, 9 balls, as pictured alan fisherman Originally fisherman's workwear. A look back at the history of the "Aran sweater." * Fashion Knit Adult Masterpiece Illustrated Encyclopedia Text: Masahiro Kogure (LOST & FOUND) Photography: Jun Udagawa Styling: Seiichi Ito Said to be the best hand knitter in the Aran Islands. Usually, Aran sweaters use wool with a rough texture, which can sometimes feel prickly against the skin, but this model feels like cashmere while retaining the rough texture of hand-knitting. "Adult Masterpiece Illustrated Encyclopedia" Knit Edition #1 Knitwear is an item that adds color to autumn and winter styling. The great charm of knitwear is that it can be worn for a long time and the more you wear it, the more attached you become to it. Do you know the "Aran sweater"? It's a cream-colored sweater with a cable-knit pattern that appears on the body and sleeves. It's a sweater that many people remember, such as when Steve McQueen wore it while driving a sand buggy in "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), and Ryan O'Neal wore it at the ice rink in Central Park in winter in "Love Story" (1970). In Japan, it was called the "fisherman's sweater" in the 60s and 70s, and it was a popular item that was indispensable for Ivy & Trad style. The Aran sweater was born in the Aran Islands of Ireland. Ireland is a country located west of Great Britain, and the three inhabited islands off the coast of Galway Bay on the west coast of Ireland are collectively called the Aran Islands. The Aran sweater, a masterpiece of knitwear, was born in a place that can be called the "westernmost point" from Japan. There are various theories, but it is said that it was born based on the "Guernsey sweater" brought in by a Scottish family who frequented the fishing base built in the Aran Islands. The Guernsey sweater they brought was a sweater born on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, a thick knitwear with a navy blue color with cable-knit patterns on the shoulders and chest, which fishermen began to wear as a uniform from the 18th to 19th centuries. It was brought to the Aran Islands, and it seems that the women of the islands, who were originally skilled and good at knitting, began to knit this Aran sweater as knitwear for themselves.