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More than £86 million overall to be invested to develop UK’s world-class culture.

More than £86 million overall to be invested to develop world-class culture

Refurbishment works complete at Framework Knitters Museum

The newly-crowned monarch has been beheaded three times in displays made by volunteers.

First it was statues, then it was books by white people. Now radicals have cricket and knitting in their sights as they aim to decolonise Britain - and theyve used millions in taxpayers cash to do it.

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Long record of crafts documenting history in the making While the knitted data-collecting creature may conjure mythical monsters, textile and knitting artists themselves have populated mythology and fiction. The threads or yarns of the Greek Fates controlled human destiny; in Homers Ulysses, Penelope prolongs her weaving to protect herself from forced marriage; and Arachne, a mortal master-weaver is turned into a spider for depicting a less-than-flattering history of the gods. In Charles Dicken...