I'd call that an internet blind spot. I know I have encountered them a number of times in the past myself. If the information is out there (and you would think it is), the search engines aren't providing a good enough way of distinguishing between contexts and eliminating irrelevant ones (such as "history" vs. "directions").

For my own part, I spent the past 40 minutes trying to produce better results. I can't tell if my general ignorance of knitting was an asset or a hinderance, but this was the best I was able to come up with:

http://www.iriss.co.uk/British_Breeds_Guernsey_Yarn.htm

I humbly suggest that if you ever find a suitable answer, you put up a web page about it. :-)

I read a scholarly treatise once about knitting and other ways to produce results that resemble knit cloth. I recall that it asserted that knitting was a popular activity for men around the same period as rocking chairs and revolution came to France. I think I found this when looking for information about socks through the years or possibly when researching textiles and archeology as it related to the Venus of Willendorf.

How to knit windproof sweaters: use 4 to 6 ply worsted with 2 to 3 mm needles. Search for "Gansey" or "Guernsey"