At our previous AGM in 2019, Kirstie Buckland generously presented a pair of gloves which our Chair, Sandy Black, accepted on behalf of Knitting History...

September 10, 2020

The Association of Dress Historians are launching an ADH Lecture & Conversation Series and have issued a Call For Submissions with a deadline of 1...

September 7, 2020

Un-Convention 2020 is the Knitting & Crochet Guild’s first virtual convention. Running from this Wednesday 9th September to Tuesday 15th September 2020, the convention has...

September 7, 2020

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