Story: Sewing, knitting and textile crafts

More links and websites

• Association of New Zealand Embroiderers Guild

  The official website, with information about local guilds, upcoming events and embroidery training.

• Creative Fibre, the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society

  The official website of the New Zealand organisation for all fibre crafts, with over 3,000 members.

• Kiwiyarns Knit

  An enthusiast’s blog devoted to knitting and New Zealand yarns.

• New Zealand Lace Society

  The official website for lace makers, collectors and enthusiasts.

• New Zealand spinning wheels and their makers

  An identification guide, containing the stories behind numerous New Zealand-made spinning wheels, some rare.

• Papercut – tricks of the trade

  Tutorials on basic sewing skills from a New Zealand-made sewing pattern company.

More suggestions and sources

• Abbott, Jean, and Shirley Bourke. Spin a yarn, weave a dream: a history of the New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society Inc, 1969-1994. North Shore: New Zealand Spinning, Weaving and Woolcrafts Society, 1994.

• Else, Anne, ed. Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand. Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates, 1993.

• McLeod, Rosemary. Thrift to fantasy: home textile crafts of the 1930s-1950s. Auckland: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

• New Zealand Fashion Museum. Home sewn: with patterns from 10 leading New Zealand designers. Auckland: Penguin, 2012.

• Nicholson, Heather. The loving stitch: a history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999.