Ebba D. Drolshagen

Born in 1948 in Büdingen, Hesse, she lives in Frankfurt am Main and Oslo. She studied English and German language and literature with a focus on linguistics in Frankfurt am Main and at the University of Chicago. Since 1985, she has been a translator from English and Norwegian and a publicist. In 2017, she published Zwei rechts, zwei links. Geschichten vom Stricken (Two Right, Two Left: Stories of Knitting), her comprehensive cultural history of knitting. The author says of herself: ‘I don't knit. I am a knitter.’ Most recently published by Residenz Verlag in the series ‘Dinge des Lebens’ (Things of Life): Die Stricknadel (The Knitting Needle) (2025).

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Ebba D. Drolshagen Hanna Zeckau (Illustrated by) - The Knitting Needle

This is about more than two sticks and a very, very long thread. Ebba D. Drolshagen recounts an incredible wealth of stories in a knowledgeable and entertaining way: from the knitting Madonna by the painter Meister Bertram to the invention of the eight-pointed Norwegian star, from patterns that migrate to guerrilla knitting, from sheep and reindeer wool to the Norwegian Sweater Curse and the web community called Ravelry. She reports on knitting as a livelihood, as a hobby, as a means of disciplining unruly girls, as a political statement and, of course, as a proven way to keep warm.

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