Title

Love Your Library: Book Talk with Nicole Nehrig - With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Contributor Names

Nehrig, Nicole (Speaker)

Date

2026-04-09

Description

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig is a book exploring how textile arts like knitting, sewing, and embroidery have been a source of liberation, community, and self-expression for women across history and cultures. The book, written by a clinical psychologist and knitter, uses stories from diverse groups—like 18th-century Quaker girls learning math through embroidery and Miao women creating "story cloths"—to show how these crafts have helped women develop intellect, find economic independence, process trauma, and make political statements. It's a celebration of women using textiles to weave their own narratives and find strength

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

Textile crafts

Textile design

Weavers

Embroidery

Knitting

Sewing

Women textile designers

Textile fabrics--History

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_001204