Meet the world of knitting,
and make a little warmth your own.
From small studios across the world to the work in your hands: thoughtful stories about yarn, beautiful objects, and the people who make them.
Made warm.
A world connected by one strand of yarn
Seven ways into the stories, skills and communities that make knitting a living craft.
Knitting by Country
Explore local traditions, garments and the stories each country carries.
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Knitting People
Meet the makers, teachers and designers behind the stitches.
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Works & Techniques
Look closely at the construction, materials and techniques of knitted work.
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History & Archives
Follow the records, pattern books and surviving pieces that tell knitting’s story.
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Culture & Community
Discover how knitting connects work, care, memory and community.
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Qualifications
Learn about professional credentials and craft qualifications around the world.
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Schools & Education
Find the guilds, schools, workshops and programmes where knitting is taught.
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What Does “Knitting Hats” Leave Out? Public Making at Buenos Aires’s Costume Museum
Read Buenos Aires costume museum gatherings from 2016 to 2022 through six rights-checked photographs. Distinguish needle knitting from…
What Can a Small Knit Tell Us? Reading Amsterdam Foundling Clothing Records
Amsterdam Museum foundling garments reveal what an old knit records—and what it cannot. Five original object records and six individually…
Two Pairs of a King’s Stockings, One Knitted: Reading Seventeenth-Century Swedish Dress
Two pairs associated with Gustav II Adolf reveal different construction: silk loops, gauge and fastening holes around 1620; plain-woven linen…
Was the Name on the Stocking or on Its Label? Reading American Knitting Records, 1782–1809
Can a 1790 New York stocking tell us who knitted it? Compare Cleveland, Colonial Williamsburg and Met records to see…
A small warmth, slowly made, in a day that moves too fast.
Let us keep knitting, together.