Wigston Framework
Knitters Museum
 
42-44 Bushloe End,
Wigston,
Leicestershire,
LE18 2BA
 
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From
6 May 2021
NEW
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Wigston Framework Knitters Museum is a Master Hosier’s house with a two story Victorian frameshop in the garden. The house dates from the last years of the seventeenth century and shows signs of various alterations. At the rear is a cobbled yard and a water pump. A two storey workshop extension has been added to the rear of the house.
The brick floor of an earlier frame shop can be seen inside the Yarn Room; not unusual for this part of Leicestershire, with its long tradition of worsted knitting. The museum is unique, because when the last master hosier, Edgar Carter died in 1952, the workshop was locked and left. Inside on the ground floor were eight hand frames for making gloves, mitts and fancy ribbed tops for golf hose, together with all the moulds and tools associated with each machine.There is a large garden, well stocked with flowers, shrubs and fruit trees. The
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Yarn Room
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(light refreshments available) and small shop complete the museum
 
 
 
 
 
Volunteer Role
 
Have you got an hour or two per month to spare?
 
Do you fancy joining the volunteer team at this unique museum?
 
We are looking for volunteers to become guides for the Museum! Full training given.
 
Contact:
Bill Boulter
07977 169440
Or email: [email protected]
 
 
 
 
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The Museum is in the Kayak Leicester Travel Guide.   Details Here
SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER 2024
 
Today was the last opening of the museum on a Sunday afternoon in 2024. The museum is now closed on Sundays for the winter period. This does not include existing booked and arranged events, which will continue. The museum should reopen in February 2025. The date for this will be confirmed in the new year.
 
 
We wish all our members and visitors a Happy Christmas and successful New Year. Thank you for your custom and support in 2024.