Long record of crafts documenting history in the making
While the knitted data-collecting creature may conjure mythical monsters, textile and knitting artists themselves have populated mythology and fiction.
The threads or yarns of the Greek Fates controlled human destiny; in Homer s Ulysses, Penelope prolongs her weaving to protect herself from forced marriage; and Arachne, a mortal master-weaver is turned into a spider for depicting a less-than-flattering history of the gods. In Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities, the unsuspected French revolutionary Madame Defarge covertly codes a hit list in her knitting.
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Professor Karen Rodham, inset, and one of her creations
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A Staffordshire University professor has used her crafting skills to chronicle life under the coronavirus pandemic.