WWW: some Craftivism links from the archives

The Politics of Knitting by Shannon Okey (Holiday 2018)

Stitch by stitch, a brief history of knitting and activism by Corinne Segal (Apr 23, 2017)

The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she? by Natalie Zarrelli (Jun 01, 2017)

Many books have been written on the subject, here are a few:

• Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years – Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barbert (1995)
• Knitting for good : a guide to creating personal, social & political change, stitch by stitch by Betsy Greer (2008)
• Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle by Clare Hunter (2019)
• Guerrilla Kindness and Other Acts of Creative Resistance: Making A Better World Through Craftivism by Sayraphim Lothian (2018)
• No Idle Hands : the Social History of American Knitting by Anne Macdonald (2010)
• The Subversive Stitch, Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker (2019)
• Craft activism : people, ideas, and projects from the new community of handmade and how you can join in by Joan Tapper; Gale Zucker (2011)

Previously on the knitty blog

Note: this is not a complete list!

• WWW: Knitting and WWII; Men and Knitting; Pockets (April 2014)
• WWW: Knitted Glass; Thoughts On Knitting for Charity; Craftivism (October 2014)
• WWW: On Being Expensive and Not; UK Wool Week; Craft, Creativity and Activism (October 2014)
• WWW: Yarn documentary; on Craftivism; Kate classes in Austin, Texas (March 2016)
• WWW: Knitting and activism goes way back; FiberCrafty; creating an ocean liner by hand; Yarnit on Funderdome this Sunday (July 2017)
• WWW: knitting as record, textile exhibit calendar, power your knitting (January 2019)

This is an incomplete list, and it is mostly a Western-centric list. I am sorry. Many thanks to those who commented on Woolly Wormhead’s Twitter thread, from which I drew many of these links.

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