KNITTING
Knitting Links
This short list of knitting websites concentrates on those with historical content but also includes a few suppliers and other related websites.
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Winchester School of Art: In the Loop Conference
A three-day international interdisciplinary conference at the University of Southampton on 15-17 July, 2008. In response to the resurgence of public interest knitting has enjoyed in recent years, the conference will explore knitting from a broad range of theoretical and practical perspectives.
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Knitchicks
A website listing British knitting groups and their meeting places.
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The Hook and The Book: The Emergence of Crochet and Knitting in American Popular Culture 1840 to 1879
A virtual tour of an exhibition. Many illustrations of equipment.
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About Knitting: Knitting Paintings
A gallery of paintings featuring spinning and knitting.
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The Shed
In just ten years, it has gone from an obscure village hall to one of the country's most renowned arts venues. Nick Morrison meets a man who has made his reputation through music, poetry - and knitting.
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History Link
Knitting for Victory -- World War II: An extended essay about the American experience with a good bibliography.
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UK Hand Knitting Association
The organisation that promotes hand knitting in the UK. A lively magazine-style site that includes information about activities and exhibitions as well as news of the world's fastest knitters.
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Knitting and Crochet Guild Collection
Many good photographs illustrate these pages which form a chronological introduction to the Guild's collection.
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Shetland Museums Service
Has sections on Fair Isle knitting and Shetland lace knitting with many photographs to illustrate the subject.
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About knitting: Guide to free knitting patterns
A route into the many free patterns available on the web.
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Knitted Elvis Wig Pattern
Want to look like Elvis? Want your friends to look like Elvis? Here's how.
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Bowknot Sweater
Download a free pattern from the School House Press website for Elsa Schiaparelli's famous 1927 black and white bowknot trompe l'oile sweater.
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Knitty
A modern online knitting magazine that produces a wide range of knitting patterns in each edition.
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The Vintage Connection
This site specialising in fashions of the past has a page of Victorian knitting patterns that includes a beadwork purse.
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Knitting History
A selection of historic knitting patterns arranged chronologically.
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Sockknitters.com
A definitive and extraordinary list of online sock patterns.
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Interweave
Interweave Publications: Exotic Fibers source list. Looking for spun camel hair? This is the place for you.
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Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe Fassett has attracted many fans worldwide to knitting, needlepoint, patchwork, and mosaic. The site is full of examples of his colourful work.
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Artfibres
San Francisco's Yarn fibre mill and knitting lounge. Experience an American yarn store from your armchair.
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Freeform Knitting and Crochet
Prudence Mapstone's inspirational site showing how to launch into making colourful garments and bags without a pattern. Good links page.
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ABC's of Knitting
Japanese knitting site with some English language pages, featuring free patterns and a resource on how to read Japanese knitting patterns.
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Knit Japan
A platform presenting the work of Japanese knitters and designers to an English speaking audience.
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Stitch and Bitch London
A London-based non-profit knitting group with a webiste, blog and news letter. They meet weekly in different locations around London.
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Cast Off
Cast Off knitting club was established in 2000. Its aims are to promote the art of knitting as a healthy, contemporary and creative pastime, through the establishment of a club dedicated to the craft.
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I Knit London
I Knit started life as a group of friends who met one night at The Beehive pub in London, who shared a common thread - knitting - and wanted to get out and knit instead of sitting in front of the TV.
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Wool Works
Wool Works ia a noncommercial, volunteer-run site full of information for handknitters.
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Glitty Knitty Kitty - Guerilla Knitting Central
A site committed to advancing the 'knitting revolution' by encouraging others to take up the craft.
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Knitta
Knitta began in 2005 when AKrylik and PolyCotN were discussing their frustration over unfinished knitting projects...so they knit their first doorknob cozy.
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microRevolt
microRevolt projects investigate the dawn of sweatshops in early industrial capitalism to inform the current crisis of global expansion and the feminisation of labour.
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Revolutionary Knitting Circle
Building community and speeding forward the revolution, through knitting...
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Craftivism
A site promoting craft as a way of rejoicing, passing time, meditating, harnessing power, sharing and keeping creative forces in motion.