A knitting revival is giving the owners of the 90 year old Wangaratta Woollen Mills in Victoria hope for the future of Australian superfine wool. To ensure there are no "roadblocks to success" the new ...
Iceland's hand-knit "lopi" sweaters are adored by tourists and worn with pride by locals. But now some local manufacturers have successfully outsourced the labor to China. That has local knitters, who ...
With the rise and rise of knitwear as high fashion, and the increasing popularity of arts and crafts, you're nobody these days unless you know how to knit. Knitting even has a few royal supporters.
Australian farmers produce some the world's finest Merino wool, but almost all of it leaves the country soon after it's been shorn off the sheep's back. There's a been huge contraction in wool ...
At the recently concluded Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics, every award ceremony ended with winners, medals, and a bouquet of flowers. Except, in 2022, the flowers in the bouquet were made of ...
Against the backdrop of quaint, intricately arranged old buildings, wooden boats seem to glide on the canal, propelled by gentle oar strokes, while a pair of black swans elegantly accompany the ...
Li Meili, inheritor of a traditional Shanghai wool-knitting technique, still can remember the exciting moment in October 2021, when she learned the wool bouquet was chosen as the final plan for the ...