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 ...

If knitting plain beanie hats or toques is getting boring, or the prospect of making them is putting you to sleep, perhaps you would like to make something more complicated. Sometimes concentrating on ...

There’s no better way to keep warm in winter than by donning an Aran sweater or an Irish knit cardigan. Aran sweaters, which take their name from the three Aran Islands of Inishmore, Inishmaan and ...

Founded in 1965, Aran Woollen Mills began with a simple but powerful idea: preserve the tradition of Aran knitting while creating meaningful work for local women along Ireland’s west coast. That ...

The Aran sweater is enjoying something of a revival after some lean times, thanks to fashion designers and Irish balladeers, … The Aran sweater is enjoying something of a revival after some lean times ...

We all know what urban myths are, and the same ones tend to turn up again and again. Like the old chestnut one of the driver picking up the hitch-hiker. He drives her to the destination, but when they ...