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Knitting in Scotland

Culture, Craft and Industry c.1880-2020
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2025
Bloomsbury Visual Arts (Verlag)
978-1-350-36171-3 (ISBN)
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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 recognisable. 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 modernisation.

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.

Lynn Abrams is Professor of Modern History at the University of Glasgow 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 is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is on the Fleece to Fashion project. Lin Gardner is a Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow and on the Fleece to Fashion project.

Introduction

Part One: Environment
1. Landscape
2. Materials
3. Place

Part Two: Economies
1. Technology
2. Consumption
3. Competition

Part Three: Societies
1. Work
2. Skill
3. Communities

Conclusion: The Usable Past of Knitting

Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.12.2025
Zusatzinfo 32 colour and 8 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10 1-350-36171-2 / 1350361712
ISBN-13 978-1-350-36171-3 / 9781350361713
Zustand Neuware
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