The Eye of God
Oct 14, 2021
5 minutes
OVER A decade ago, when researching the first edition of my book River Ganseys, I came across this image of a fisherman, then hung high on a wall in the Whitby RNLI Museum in North Yorkshire. A kind volunteer offered to scale a ladder to take a slightly wonky photo of the image, and it was this one we used in the first edition of the book.
We now have this scan, reproduced below, which enhances the image, and was made by illustrator Hazel P. Mason for the second edition of River Ganseys. The picture has great historical significance to knitters, as it is the only known image of the once common ‘Eye of God’ or ‘Eye of Providence’ motif.
The photograph is called , and was taken by D.W.
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