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Knitting History Forum Conference 2025

Published September 24, 2024 in Conferences Events KHF Events
Image: at the Knitting History Forum conference on Saturday 1 February 2025 Elizabeth Baer will discuss Krystyna Chiger’s green sweater, now at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC

The Knitting History Forum is pleased to announce that the next annual conference is on Saturday 1 February 2025, with presentations on the history of knitting and crochet.

We have an exciting programme of speakers lined up for the online event:

  • Elizabeth Baer – A green sweater worn by a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis
  • Eleanor Gilchrist – The technology of the crochet pattern in the 1840s
  • Isa Holmgren – The creative process at Bohus Stickning, a Swedish textile association founded in 1939
  • Ryan Koenig – A reconstruction of the 16th century knitted cap from Ballybunion
  • Emily Rickard – A knitter’s vocabulary in capturing their emotional state
  • Trista Yeung – The historical development of knitting in China in the late 19th century and early 20th century

Tickets (at £27) will be on sale soon.

Please do subscribe to the Knitting History Forum’s newsletter to hear when the tickets go on sale. You can also sign up to the KHF online discussion group.

The Knitting History Forum is an international network for the history of knitting and crochet. KHF advances and promotes the history of knitting through research, exchange of ideas and information, and by historical reconstruction. Bookmark the KHF website!

Knitting History Forum Conference Saturday 1 February 2025

Published August 28, 2024 in Conferences Events KHF Events

Save The Date! Knitting History Forum is pleased to announce the next annual KHF Conference will be online on Saturday 1 February 2025.

Would you like to give a presentation at the conference next year? We have already lined up some interesting presentations but the KHF committee is still inviting contributions. Please send a title and short description (350 words) to KHF chair, Sandy Black, at s.black@fashion.arts.ac.uk or fellow committee member Jane Malcolm-Davies at jane@jmdandco.com. All presenters will be asked to provide an abstract and photographs – one of themselves and at least one illustrating the topic of their talk to promote the event. Add an identifying caption for the image with any credits which are required. In addition, all presenters must record their talk in advance so that there is a backup of reasonable quality to use on the day of the conference, if necessary, and so we can make the conference available online after the event (to ticketholders only behind, a password).

Click here for more more information about previous Knitting History Forum Conferences. The February 2024 event included a mixture of object-based, archive-based and documentary research, knitting tradition and practical reconstruction.  Access to the 2024 conference recordings may still be purchased online.

Knitting History Forum/Early Knitting History Group Reconstruction Knitted Sanquhar Glove courtesy of Kirstie Buckland. PLEASE DO NOT USE IMAGE WITHOUT PERMISSION

Subscribe to the Knitting History Forum’s newsletter to keep in touch and hear what is happening. Don’t forget the free KHF online discussion group is available to discuss ideas for the conference or stay in touch with friends and delegates between conferences (either log in or register as a new member). After you’ve logged in, use the options in the sidebar to select how to receive messages at your convenience.

New submissions are always welcome and we invite you to contact us as soon as possible.

We look forward to seeing you in February!