Weird Things Made by 19th-Century Crafters: Virtual Lecture with Franklin Habit

Details

Date: Friday, July 11, 2025

Time: Noon-1:30 PM Eastern

Location: Zoom—this is a virtual event.

Your confirmation email will include a link to the Zoom.

THE EVENT

Beloved as much for his wit and adorableness as his encyclopedic knowledge of the history of knitting and crafts, Franklin will present a richly illustrated talk about the 19th century, and the weird things crafters made.

This will be a virtual event, held on Zoom. Participant mics will be muted most of the time due to the size of the group, but we hope you’ll ask questions in the chat. Franklin will answer as many as time permits.

Can’t make it to the live Zoom session? Everyone who enrolls will receive a link to the recording of the talk to listen to at leisure.

Our Featured Guest

Franklin Habit is an author, teacher, illustrator, and writer whose entire life is tangled up in yarn. As one of the most sought-after teachers and lecturers on the international circuit, he has traveled to teach knitters across the United States and around the world.

He is the author of two very silly books, It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons and I Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet Coloring Book.

His current book project is the long-awaited At Home with Foxe and Boxe. (If you know, you know—and you cannot wait!)

Among Franklin’s varied experiences in the fiber world are contributions of writing and design to Vogue Knitting, PieceWork, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, and Interweave Crochet; and a column for Modern Daily Knitting (who’s that?), Knitty.com, PLY Magazine, Lion Brand Yarns, Skacel Collection/Makers’ Mercantile.

You can follow Franklin online through his popular Patreon campaign and on Instagram and YouTube.

Franklin lives in Paris, where most of the knitters prefer the ridiculously complicated word maille to the very sensible English noun stitch. But the food is good.