About this Event
Learn about the history of knitting in Scotland through film, including historic footage of the Twomax knitwear factory in Glasgow.
Dr Sally Tucket will be giving a presentation on the Twomax factory, and how it sits within the cutlure of knitting and crafts in Scotland.
A selection of archival knitwear by Twomax will be on exhibition during this event.
This event is part of our week of activities to mark Fashion Revolution Week 2026.
About the Speaker
Dr Sally Tuckett is Senior Lecturer in Dress and Textile History at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on the clothing and textile cultures of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Scotland, working closely with museum and archive collections. Exploring themes of themes of manufacture, trade, and identity, she has published on Ayrshire whitework, Turkey red dyed and printed cotton, tartan and linen. Knitting in Scotland: Culture, Craft and Industry, co-written with Lynn Abrams, Roslyn Chapman, Lin Gardner and Marina Moskowitz, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026.
About the project:
The Fleece to Fashion project focuses on creativity, sustainability and authenticity in charting the relationships between skills, design, knowledge and techniques. These factors underpin the survival and revival of knitting as a craft and industrial practice and are the reasons why knitted textiles have become synonymous with Scottish heritage. Find out more about the Fleece to Fashion Project at: Fleece To Fashion – Economies and Cultures of Knitting in Modern Scotland
About Fashion Revolution Week
Fashion Revolution Week is a global awareness week that asks people to think about who makes their clothes and under what conditions. It was created to remember the Rana Plaza factory disaster and to push the fashion industry toward greater transparency, fair labour, and more sustainable practices. It’s a week of encouraging all of us consumers to be mindful of our recourses and where we can reuse, mend, and slow down the consumption of materials.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Library of Scotland at Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
