Cowichan Sweater

COWICHAN SWEATER, named for the COWICHAN First Nation of VANCOUVER ISLAND, is a bulky sweate hand-knitted from sheep's wool in natural colours of white, grey, brown and black. Before contact with Europeans, the Cowichan wove blankets and clothing from MOUNTAIN GOAT wool and the hair of a specially bred woolly breed of dog. They were introduced to knitting by white settlers after 1850 and a distinctive sweater style gradually emerged: it has a shawl collar, and the maker uses a 2-colour Fair...

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