Volunteers at Nottinghamshire-based Framework Knitters Museum have been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service (KAVS) 2023. The award recognises and celebrates outstanding work of local volunteer groups across the UK. Local assessors came together to research and visit the museum before … [Read more...]
Grade II listed buildings receive refurb at local museum
Works have started at Framework Knitters Museum, as its Grade II listed cottage and frameshop buildings receive a refurbishment. The £62,295 project will see external works carried out on the buildings, including repairs to the roofs and chimneys, replacing the gutters, and repointing the walls. … [Read more...]
A new chapter opens for the Framework Knitters’ Museum
The Framework Knitters, Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham is celebrating having been awarded £234,500 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and £82,952 from FCC Communities Foundation for an exciting new project called, ‘A Right Good Yarn’. As the museum approaches its 50th anniversary, this … [Read more...]
Beauty out of ugliness – museum’s knitted Covid-19 set to ‘go viral’
Helen Brownett, Textile Artist & Technical Demonstrator at the Framework Knitters Museum in Ruddington, Nottingham, has designed her own version of a Covid-19 virus – and knitted it in 3D on one of the museum’s antique circular knitting machines. Helen put the finishing touches to the blue … [Read more...]