Saturday 7th November 2020 In order to recognise the extraordinary circumstances of the 2020 global coronavirus pandemic, the Knitting History Forum has decided to stage an online...

September 4, 2020

This has been an extraordinary year. Many have been affected by the events of the past ten months and it seemed in poor taste to...

August 26, 2020

Join us in beautiful Leiden for a weekend of Knitting History! We welcome scholars, knitters and everyone with an interest in knitting. The Knitting History...

October 30, 2019

A new exhibition, ‘Socks & Stockings: A world full of surprises’, has opened at the Textile Research Centre in Leiden , tying in with the Texel Stockings Project and...

October 25, 2019

The weekend of the KHF Conference & AGM 2019 approaches quickly : Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd November 2019. For those who still might be...

October 17, 2019

This year’s Knitting History Forum will be venturing out to picturesque Leiden in The Netherlands for a special event focused around seventeenth century knitted stockings....

February 27, 2019

“Wool: Cloth, Clothing and Culture” is the subject of the next MEDATS (Medieval Dress and Textiles Society) conference in April. Many of the papers confirmed for MEDATS...

January 14, 2019

This knitted item, found in a crypt in a Danish manor church, was photographed on the day it was recognised as an Early Modern cap...

December 14, 2018

BREAKING NEWS! The 60th edition of Archaeological Textiles Review has finally been published. This long-awaited diamond issue is devoted to the study of Early Modern knitted items with...

December 12, 2018