Loraine and Tricia have arranged a KHF visit to see knitting from the Victoria and Albert museum in London. The V&A has a rich and varied holding...

January 12, 2015

Next week the Fashion and Textile Museum in London will be running a three-day course on using software to illustrate and chart knitting designs. ‘Illustrator...

January 8, 2015

Joyce Meader has graciously invited Knitting History Forum to an open house at her home in Hampshire, on 29 April 2015. For those of you who do not...

December 5, 2014

Christmas knitwear has come in from the cold. Rescued from the icy wastelands of taste and fashion, it is assured of a welcome with the...

November 23, 2014

Our next Knitting History Forum event is the Knitting & Crochet Guild Trunk Show on 21 February 2015, from 1pm to 4pm at the Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley...

November 10, 2014

Another great day at our annual KHF AGM and Conference on Saturday, with a broad range of topics and plenty of discussion! Angharad Thomas took...

November 10, 2014

In the Loop 4 will be held 26-28 August 2015 at the University of Glasgow, in association with the School of Humanities and the ‘Knitting...

November 5, 2014

Fans of Kirstie Buckland’s wonderful black-and-white glove as featured on our website may be interested in the Sanquhar Knitting Workshop this Saturday 1 November 2014...

October 29, 2014

According to a survey, two-thirds of teenagers in 1960s Britain were knitters. An interesting article by Alison Adburgham from 1961 reprinted in 2012, with a...

October 24, 2014