PHOTO: Bogan Crafters hard at work – photo supplied by Wendy Clissold
World Knit in Public day is coming up on Saturday 8th of June and the Bogan Craft Group in Nyngan is ready to knit and purl in public to celebrate the day and share their skills with any would be knitters.
Knitting, which originated in the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean around the 5th century, saw the earliest artefacts in the form of Egyptian socks. From there the skill spread to Europe where male guilds used it to make religious garment.
Over time it became an aspect of daily life, practiced by people of all genders and cultural backgrounds, although fast forward to today and it is mostly (but not confined to) a female past time…