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Becky Male
Becky Male is an independent researcher who has been exploring the century of knitting patterns held in the Glasgow Women’s Library museum collection for over 5 years. She’s given talks with the Royal Society of Edinburgh and will be giving one in September for the National Archives, and will be presenting in September her research on feminist knitting at a conference on historical textiles. She also contributed a garment to the University of Glasgow’s “Knit a Margaret Klein” research project. Sometimes, she knits and reads at the same time.
Lives On and Off the Needle: A Look Inside Glasgow Women's Library's Collection
Glasgow Women’s Library is the only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history and lives. Part of that history is the Knitting Collection: hundreds of patterns that were donated by ordinary knitters. Mostly 20th century, they offer unexpected insights into the lives of the women who knit them, trends over the decades and the sometimes radical works they created. With patterns covering everything from swimsuits to handwritten patterns, war knitting to feminist jumpers, this is a chance to explore knitting not just as a form of textile creation but a way women create themselves.
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