Angharad Thomas CURRICULUM VITAE

Qualifications 2011 University of Salford PhD. The role of design in sustainable development: a qualitative exploration in the context of Welsh textile production 1997 and College H.N.C. Handloom weaving 1986 Trent Polytechnic M.A. Knitwear and Knitted Fabric Design 1973 City of and Carnegie Diploma in Education, Geography and Art College 1971 Bedford College, University of B.Sc. (Hons) Geography/Geology London

Membership of Professional Bodies Design Research Society. Textile Society. Knitting & Crochet Guild. Heritage Crafts Association. Universities and Colleges Union. Crafts Council Directory listed maker. Creative listed maker.

Employment history: summary 2012 – present Independent scholar. Craftsperson, designer and maker

Textile archivist at the Knitting and Crochet Guild collection, Holmfirth, Yorkshire (voluntary part time post)

Selected professional engagements and awards 2020 Knitting History Forum. Holy Hands: a study of liturgical gloves, presented paper via Zoom

2020 Textile Society of America Symposium, Hidden Stories/Human lives. Hidden stories in the collection of the Knitting & Crochet Guild of the UK. Selected presentation via Zoom.

2020 Janet Arnold research grant awarded for ‘Holy Hands: a study of liturgical gloves’. Society of Antiquaries, London

2019 Hand in Glove, Invited speaker, East Yorkshire Embroidery Society.

2019 For the love of gloves. Keynote speaker: Knitting & Crochet Guild Convention, University of Warwick 2017 Invited presenter: The Nature of Craft at Ruthin Craft Centre, in conjunction with Make exhibition. April 1st

Making (selected) See blog at: http://knittinggloves.wordpress.com/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/angharadtphd/ Gloves and stockings commissioned by John Alexander Skelton, November 2020 Glove knitting workshop, Knitting & Crochet Guild, September 2020 via Zoom Selvedge World Fair 2020 on line event, selected maker Glove knitting workshop for On Line Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, May 2020 Miniature Latvian mittens workshop, Knitting & Crochet Guild, July 2019 Miniature Latvian mittens workshop, Knitting & Crochet Guild, St Anne’s College, Oxford May 2019 Sanquhar glove knitting workshop and lecture, Wild and Woolly, London, June 2017 Sanquhar glove knitting workshop, Westcliffe Knitting Holidays, Blackpool, March 2017 Produced gloves for fashion designer for London collections March 2017 Sanquhar glove knitting workshop, Knitting & Crochet Guild, Birmingham, October 2016 Yorkshire glove knitting workshop, Westcliffe on tour, , April 2016 Sanquhar glove knitting workshop, Westcliffe Knitting Holidays, Blackpool. September 2015

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Estonian Craft Camp participant – 2015,2016, 2017, 2018 Nordic Knitting Symposium participant 2018 Latvian mittens study tour 2017

Exhibitions (selected) September – October 2017: Farfield Mill, Cumbria, Hand in Glove with Heritage February 18 – April 23, 2017: Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales. Invited to show in Make exhibition November 2016 – January 2017: Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Hand in Glove. Solo exhibition. From 2016 ongoing: Co-curator with Beth Brown-Reinsel (USA): Online exhibit of Sanquhar gloves for the Centre for Knit and Crochet, USA,. See: http://centerforknitandcrochet.org/exhibitions/

Media March 2020. Interview with Radio Leeds morning programme about Knitting & Crochet Guild ‘Collection in 100 objects’ Heritage Lottery Fund project

October 2016. Interview on Radio Leeds morning programme about Bankfield Exhibition.

Feature in Examiner about Bankfield Exhibition. Also video interview in their web site at: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/huddersfield-designers-unique-exhibition-gloves- 12075758

September 2013 and repeated on iPlayer. Presenter of Knitting & Crochet Guild items in Knitting’s Golden Age, BBC4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bgrvf

Writing and research (selected)

Thomas A and L O’Connell Edwards, 2021. Project report. Holy Hands: studies of knitted liturgical gloves, Archaeological Textiles Review 61. University of Copenhagen. In preparation

Thomas, A 2019 The Collection of the Knitting & Crochet Guild of the UK: A Critical Review of Its Usages. Journal of Textile Design, Research and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 1 pp 71-83

Thomas, A, 2019. The gloves come off. Feature, Selvedge magazine, Issue 90, Autumn.

Thomas, A, 2019. Cold lands, warm hands, feature. Magpie glove pattern. Piecework, Fall Spring/Summer 2017. Invited author for Vogue Knitting, USA, The Sanquhar Glove, special issue

Thomas, A, 2015, The Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection. A Hand Made Legacy? Craft Research. Vol 6, no 2 pp 287 – 296

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