A selection of texts on the history of women and needlecraft:

Rozsika Parker: The Subversive Stitch, embroidery and the making of the feminine

Kassia St Clair: The Golden Thread

Wang Ping: Nu Shu, Female Writing in China

Els Kloek: Vrouw des Huizes, een cultuurgeschiedenis van de Hollandse huisvrouw

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Angela Davis: The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective (Women, Race and Class)

Constance Classen (editor): The Book of Touch

Lucy Lippard: Making Something from Nothing (toward a Definition of Women's 'Hobby Art')

Dave Fougner: The Manly Art of Knitting

Clare Hunter: Threads of Life

Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women

Silvia Federici: Revolution at Point Zero

Silvia Federici: Re-enchanting the World

Silvia Federici: Caliban and the Witch

Steven J. Jackson: Rethinking Repair

Jessica Hemmings (editor): The Textile Reader

Kate Sekules: MEND! a Refashioning Manual and Manifesto

Loretta Napoleoni: The Power of Knitting