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Framework Knitters Museum
  • Your Visit
    • Visitors
    • Opening times and prices
    • Chapel Hire
    • Find us
    • Group Visits & Outreach
    • Cafe and Shop
    • Explore Ruddington
    • Video Gallery
  • What’s on
  • Get Involved
    • Meet the team
    • Friends of the Museum
    • How to give
    • Legacies
    • Vacancies
  • Learning
    • School Trips
    • Workshops
    • Family History
    • The Library
  • News
  • Access
  • Contact

Here are just a few of the videos that have been made by, or filmed at, the Framework Knitters Museum in the last few years, plus a final film from the Horrible Histories team, relevant to the museums history, which we hope you'll enjoy.

You’ll find lots more videos about framework knitting and the museum on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Je3lgBYB14

Poor as a Stockinger

An introduction to our museum.

Find out how the framework knitting industry began in Nottingham and what it was like to live and work as a framework knitter.

Click here for the subtitled version

Breaking the Frame

Take the challenge and confront the dilemmas faced by the framework knitters.

Will you join the outlaw Luddites, work within the law for change or be thankful for what you have in life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JAWWhPzCsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-cOI-VMa3s

A View of the Framework Knitters Museum’s interiors

A view of the museum interiors for those unable to visit the museum or access the upper floors.

Knitting frames explained

Museum demonstrator, Andy Bone, explains how a knitting frame works and describes what working life was like for the framework knitters.

Film by Morley Threads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_wMGYUPUJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOO5wuywdg

200th Anniversary of the Luddites

John Holmes of BBC Nottinghamshire on the 200th anniversary of the Luddite uprisings in Nottinghamshire. Includes footage shot at the museum.

The Luddites Song

The Horrible Histories team perform a punk song to describe the Luddite movement.

Film by CBBC Horrible Histories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tQSRR0Ank

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