This story is part of a Streetwise series on “How It’s Made” in Sheboygan. The series will help give a behind-the-scenes look at how businesses and crafters across Sheboygan County make the goods you ...

In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is enabling Japan’s Shima Seiki and Italy’s Lonati to create ever more seamless links from basic design through to final production for the knitted socks industry, via the ...

The cover article of this month's issue of The Atlantic magazine has me thinking about socks -- or rather, about what Abraham Lincoln said about them. The article, titled "The 50 Greatest ...

While I was doing research for my book, Wartime: The First World War in a Canadian Town (which features Guelph), I came across the story of how women across Canada knitted various items for the ...