Roslyn Chapman

• Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting

  Open Access•Leonard Abrams, Lynn Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•TEXTILE•2026•Referências: 15

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  This article explores the benefits of academic collaboration with the community of practice. It employs experimental history methodology, a collaboration between historians, curators and volunteer knitters, in order to gain knowledge about design and making practices in two examples of historic hand knitting from the modern period. The first project investigated nineteenth-century printed knitting patterns purporting to be Shetland lace. The seco…

• Introduction

  Leonard Abrams, Roslyn Chapman et al.•ARTICLE•TEXTILE•2023

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  This Introduction frames a curated collection of articles on creativity in the knitwear sector, interrogating some of the ways in which creativity has been inspired, supported and manifested, from the home knitter to the internationally renowned designer, from the craft knitter to the industrial knitwear manufacturer. The contributions provide a diverse understanding of the creative practices of knitting, ranging from the skills of hand knitters …

• Introduction

  Leonard Abrams, Roslyn Chapman et al.•ARTICLE•TEXTILE•2023

  Incluir item

  This Introduction frames a curated collection of articles on creativity in the knitwear sector, interrogating some of the ways in which creativity has been inspired, supported and manifested, from the home knitter to the internationally renowned designer, from the craft knitter to the industrial knitwear manufacturer. The contributions provide a diverse understanding of the creative practices of knitting, ranging from the skills of hand knitters …

• Re-Creating Historic Modern Hand Knitting

  Open Access•Leonard Abrams, Lynn Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•TEXTILE•2026•Referências: 15

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  This article explores the benefits of academic collaboration with the community of practice. It employs experimental history methodology, a collaboration between historians, curators and volunteer knitters, in order to gain knowledge about design and making practices in two examples of historic hand knitting from the modern period. The first project investigated nineteenth-century printed knitting patterns purporting to be Shetland lace. The seco…

Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 obras) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 obras) · Aesthetics (1 obra) · Archaeology (1 obra) · Art (1 obra) · Clothing (1 obra) · Context (archaeology (1 obra) · Craft (1 obra) · Creativity (1 obra) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (1 obra)