The Freece to Fashion team at the University of Glasgow are delighted to let you know that the book of the project, Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft and Industry is available as a free download or to be purchased in hardback at £85.
The fully illustrated book tells the story of Scottish knitting and knitwear with a focus on the period from the late nineteenth century to the present day. 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.
