Hannah Taylor-Johnson reaches tenderly inside her bag, pulling out a cream-coloured scarf to wrap around herself as she recalls the last few days of her father’s life. The Ottawa-based art therapist ...

Like many traditional domestic crafts, knitting has experienced a huge surge in popularity in the 21st century, making it fashionable and even radical. But the history of hand knitting is still ...

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Winding fibre between sticks to form stitches that become a knitted fabric dates back many centuries. In Unravelling Canada: A Knitting Odyssey, author Sylvia Olsen follows the evolution of knitting ...

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