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Category: Hand Knitting

Posted on November 24, 2021February 16, 2022

Learning to Knit All Over Again

Written by Cassandra Milani I learned to knit for the first time as an undergrad while studying abroad at the London College of Fashion. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a hand-knitting …

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Posted on October 21, 2021February 16, 2022

Round the World in Knitted Objects, Online Colloquium 15 October 2021

Helen Kempton, MLitt Student Dress and Textile Histories When Dr Adelheid Rasche reappeared with an interior photo of a seventeenth-century knitted silk jacket, the excitement was palpable – even …

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Posted on August 4, 2021February 16, 2022

The Myths and Mysteries of “Fair Isle” Knitwear

Written by Cassandra Milani “Fair Isle” stranded colourwork is one of the most recognizable knitting traditions in the world today, yet its precise history remains one of the least …

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Posted on May 28, 2020February 16, 2022

Family Knitstories

In our second post on the personal knitting stories of the ‘Fleece to Fashion’ project team, Lynn Abrams remembers a family knitting heritage of dolls’ clothes and much loved …

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Posted on May 22, 2020April 29, 2021

Guiding Hands

In our last post we pondered on the fate of textile crafts during this pandemic. In the next few posts we thought we would share with you some of …

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