Inara Porietis relates her Latvian mother’s refrain during her last few years of life, which was said only partially tongue-in-cheek: “I can’t die yet. I don’t have enough mittens knitted!” The “enough mittens” refers to the tradition of giving Latvian mittens to the people involved in the funeral ceremony, including the pallbearers and the presiding… More The Knitted Treasures of Latvia
Birger Berge is a 29 year-old Norwegian knitter from Bergen. He became famous on Instagram with his knitting pictures, and his fame reached out of Norway. You can read about him here. You can find him on Instagram here. Men knitting is still considered an exception to the rule, but Birger and many more men… More Meet the Knitting Man from Norway
According to Atlas Obscura: Whether women knitted codes into fabric or used stereotypes of knitting women as a cover, there’s a history between knitting and espionage. “Spies have been known to work code messages into knitting, embroidery, hooked rugs, etc,” according to the 1942 book A Guide to Codes and Signals. During wartime, where there… More Knitting Spies (Yes just what it says)