Our Publications

  • Abrams, Lynn and Lin Gardner, ‘Recognising the co-dependence of machine and hand in the Scottish knitwear industry’, Textile History, available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00404969.2021.2014768 (Early Online Publication)
  • Abrams, Lynn, ‘Gender, work and textiles in the Shetland household’ in Shetland Textiles: 800 BC to the Present, ed. by Sarah Laurenson (Lerwick: Shetland Heritage Publications, 2013), pp.158-164
  • Abrams, Lynn, ‘ ‘There is many a thing that can be done with money’: Women, barter and autonomy in a Scottish fishing community in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, Signs, 37:3 (2012), pp.602-609, available at https://doi.org/10.1086/662700
  • Abrams, Lynn, ‘Knitting, autonomy and identity: the role of hand-knitting in the construction of women’s sense of self in an island community, Shetland, c.1850-2000’, Textile History, 37 (2006), pp.149-165, available at https://doi.org/10.1179/004049606×132078
  • Abrams, Lynn, Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland 1800-2000 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005)
  • Chapman, Roslyn, ‘Currie & Co.: no truck with truck’, 60 North, 12 (2015), pp.38-41
  • Chapman, Roslyn, ‘Suitable for matron and flapper: from Henley to Paris and beyond’, 60 North, 10 (2014), pp.28-32
  • Chapman, Roslyn, ‘Truck and barter: knitting for nothing but goods’, 60 North, 11 (Winter 2014), pp.11-14
  • Chapman, Roslyn, ‘Shetland lace’ in Shetland Textiles: 800 BC to the Present ed. by Sarah Laurenson (Lerwick: Shetland Heritage Publications, 2013), pp.120-133
  • Chapman, Roslyn, ‘The history of the fine lace knitting industry in nineteenth and early twentieth century Shetland’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015), available at http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/6763
  • Christiansen, Carol, ‘Getting inside knitting sheaths’, Unkans 23 (2010), p.4, available at https://www.shetlandmuseumandarchives.org.uk/site/assets/files/1707/unkans_no23.pdf
  • Christiansen, Carol, ‘The fashion for Shetland knitted lace blouses’, Journal of the Australian Lace Guild, 42:1 (Spring 2000), pp.7-9
  • Moskowitz, Marina, ‘ “Terrain in every hue”: Locating the luxury knitwear trade in Scotland’s landscape’, in Storytelling in Luxury Fashion: Brands, Visual Cultures, and Technologies, ed. by Amanda Sikarskie (Routledge Research in Design Studies, 2020)
  • Tuckett, Sally, ‘ ‘Needle crusaders’: The nineteenth-century Ayrshire whitework industry’, Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 36:1 (2016), pp.60-80, available at https://doi.org/10.3366/jshs.2016.0168
  • Tuckett, Sally, ‘Reassessing the romance: Tartan as a popular commodity, c.1770-1830’, The Scottish Historical Review, 95:2 (2016), pp.182-202, available at https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2016.0295
  • Nenadic, Stana and Sally Tuckett, ‘Artisans and aristocrats in nineteenth-century Scotland’, The Scottish Historical Review, 95:2 (2016), pp.203-229, available at https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2016.0296
  • Nenadic, Stana and Sally Tuckett, Colouring the Nation: The Turkey red printed cotton industry in Scotland, c.1840 (Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2013)
  • Tuckett, Sally and Stana Nenadic, ‘Colouring the nation: A new in-depth study of the Turkey red pattern books in the National Museums of Scotland’, Textile History, 43:2 (2012), pp.161-182, available at https://doi.org/10.1179/0040496912Z.00000000016
  • Tuckett, Sally, ‘National dress, gender and Scotland: 1745-1822’, Textile History, 40:2 (2009), pp.140-151, available at https://doi.org/10.1179/004049609×12504376351308