Description of the Sea Aran from Compassionate Knitting:

“The Aran sweater is a knitted garment born from an amalgamation of knitting styles from fishing cultures up and down the western European seaboard. yet something about it remains uniquely Irish - so much so that we have come to know this style as “Irish Fisherman” knitting. As is typical of the great Irish storytelling tradition, each stitch in the Aran lexicon tells a tale that is rich in the culture of the sea and the difficult existence of the men and women who lived and died by it.
This slightly flared swearer uses the calbe and texture stitches often associated with the sea and follows the classic Aran sweater structure of arranging the patterns in vertical panels, but also features a contemporary sensibility in its modern styling and shaping. The yarn shown here is a uniqye cotton-blend/net material with a texture and color that recall the feel and look of sand.“