ANNEMOR SUNDBØ has published several books about Norway’s history of knitting and textile production. Her latest book, Norway’s Knitted Heritage, is now available in English for the first time, and is an absolute must-read for anyone interested in Scandinavian knitting and textiles. Into it, she has put her years of knowledge and experience, combined with her endless curiosity about the ways that textile creation connect us – geographically, historically and spiritually.
Originally trained as a weaver and industrial textile designer, Annemor spent a year on the Faroe Islands in the 1970s, teaching, and investigating how they used the wool, how it was processed and spun, to make it suit the climate of those remote, subpolar islands. She also spent about five years on the Outer Hebrides weaving tweed, and spending time with a crofter, learning to use the Hattersley loom (created in 1921 to advance the cottage weaving industry).
She had been teaching weaving for about a decade when the imminent mass closure of Norway’s weaving schools made her fear for the future of weaving in her
