Overview

The story of Scottish knitting: the first critical history and analysis of a local craft turned international icon. From Fair Isle patterning to Pringle jumpers, Scottish knitwear is internationally renowned and instantly recognizable. This open access study unpicks the distinctive place of knitting in the Scottish landscape, economy, and culture from the 19th century to today. Recent reappraisals of the industrial revolution and traditional craft economies, and the recent revival of hobby knitting during the Covid-19 pandemic, have raised new questions about the roles of social communities, sustainability and women’s domestic work in the textile industries. Tracing its story from raw material to final product, from home-spun clothes and crafts to luxury markets and industrial-scale production, Knitting in Scotland investigates the Scottish knitting trade’s remarkable survival across two centuries of economic and cultural modernization. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.

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The product of extraordinary collaboration and expert research. Makes a compelling intervention, positioning domestic and industrial knitting as central to the histories of textiles, craft, and women’s labor and leisure. * Lauren Downing Peters, Columbia College Chicago, USA * Vital for anyone seeking to understand how Scotland has shaped knitting and knitting has shaped Scotland. A rigorous and readable account that sheds light on everyday concerns and practices of makers and workers, especially women, and builds a multi-layered picture of the significance of knit textiles in Scottish culture and international influence. * Siún Carden, University of rhe Highlands and Islands (UHI Shetland), UK *

Author Information

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow, UK and principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘Fleece to Fashion: Economies and Cultures of Knitting in Scotland’. Sally Tuckett is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is co-investigator on the Fleece to Fashion project. Marina Moskowitz is the Lynn and Gary Mecklenburg Chair in Textiles, Material Culture, and Design at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA. She is international co-investigator on the Fleece to Fashion project and an editor of Textile History. Roslyn Chapman was a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK and on the Fleece to Fashion project. Lin Gardner was a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, UK and on the Fleece to Fashion project.

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