[Radio Wrangler]

It's amazing just what has been done at one time or another. It must have been in the early/middle sixties and the memory has lain dormant until I read your post. Even the maker's name came back! I have no idea how they coloured the wool in bands I remember being mystified by the balls of wool. The finished item lacked all the colour change knot tails on the inside and was a christmassy thing with reindeer. Rather blocky pixellated reindeer we'd say today.

For a job, mum used to sew in new threads to repair weaving errors and damage in newly woven fine worsted cloth. Skilled is a bit of an understatement. Even so, the knitting of that pullover entered the family language, a 'Mary Maxim job' being synonymous with 'York Minster job'.

David