POLPERRO MUSEUM. Polperro knitfrocks (jerseys) were knitted for the fishermen by village girls employed for that purpose. Knitfrock is a Polperro term, elsewhere they are called guernseys or ganseys.

Using a traditional gansey pattern kept at the museum, they doubled the number of stitches to make it four times the usual jumper size. After some 768 hours knitting with 32 balls of super-chunky ...