"Stitch for Stitch, You Are Remembering": Knitting and Crochet as Material Memorialization

This article explores the role of the crafts of knitting and crochet in memorialization, an aspect of how contemporary knitting culture uses craft as a means of connecting with the sacred. It argues that knitting and crochet as material memorialization is part of wider trends in late modernity: the...

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Main Author: Fisk, Anna (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2019]
In: Material religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 15, Issue: 5, Pages: 553-576
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Knitting / Crocheting / Learning by heart / Ritual
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B Commemoration
B Craft
B Memorialization
B Knitting
B crochet
B Mourning
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