Reading and links

Finding out more about hosiery in Leicestershire

Places to visit

• The Wigston Framework Knitters Museum
• Ruddington Framework Knitters Museum

Websites

• Framework Knitting - Leicester Industrial History Society - watch a video.
• Housing the Leicester Framework Knitters (.pdf) - from the transactions of the Leicester Archaeological History Society.
• I.A. Recordings: Links to textiles sites, and information about videos looking at textile companies.
• Knitting Together - the heritage of the East Midlands knitting industry.
• Barrow on Soar - Framework Knitting - from Leicestershire Villages
• Spartacus on textiles: An educational site with a huge amount on every aspect of the history of the textile industry in Britain, particularly in the 19th century.
• The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters - the Company maintains a reference library at Corah House, Oadby, Leicestershire.
• Hinckley and Bosworth Sound Archive - a variety of reminiscences and interviews hosted by Hilltop Radio and Earsight. In particular the oral history features interviews conducted by Rhianydd Murray on the hosiery industry in Hinckley, which contributed to the book Twisted Yarns (see below).

Books

• Su Barton and Rhianydd Murray, Twisted Yarns: The Story of the Hosiery Industry in Hinckley (Hinckley: North Warwickshire and Hinckley College, 2000).
• Geoffrey Bowles and Siobhan Kirrane, Knitting Together, Memories of Leicestershire's Hosiery Industry. (Leicester: Leicester Museums Service, 1990). Available from the New Walk Museum.
• F.A. Wells, The British hosiery and knitwear industry: its history and organisation (Newton Abbot : David and Charles, 1972).
• Sally Westwood, All Day Every Day - Factory and family in the making of women's lives (London: Pluto, 1984).

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