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Publication Date: 05/09/2019 ISBN: 9781783784356 Category:

This Golden Fleece

Esther Rutter

Publisher: Granta Books
Publication Date: 05/09/2019 ISBN: 9781783784356 Category:
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Esther Rutter grew up on a Suffolk sheep farm where she learned to spin, weave and knit from a young age. In This Golden Fleeceshe embarks on a tour of the UK, from Shetland to the Channel Islands, uncovering, and participating in, its rich knitting history. She spends time with mill workers on the Scottish borders, Welsh stocking knitters and plots the history of the Highland walking sock. A beautiful meditation on history, culture and woolly jumpers.

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Over the course of a year, Esther Rutter – who grew up on a sheep farm in Suffolk, and learned to spin, weave and knit as a child – travels the length of the British Isles, to tell the story of wool’s long history here.

She unearths fascinating histories of communities whose lives were shaped by wool, from the mill workers of the Border countries, to the English market towns built on profits of the wool trade, and the Highland communities cleared for sheep farming; and finds tradition and innovation intermingling in today’s knitwear industries. Along the way, she explores wool’s rich culture by knitting and crafting culturally significant garments from our history – among them gloves, a scarf, a baby blanket, socks and a fisherman’s jumper – reminding us of the value of craft and our intimate relationship with wool.

This Golden Fleece is at once a meditation on the craft and history of knitting, and a fascinating exploration of wool’s influence on our landscape, history and culture.

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