Jessica Hemmings is Professor of Craft at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Visiting Professor with the Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, Hungary, the Rita Bolland Fellow at the Research Centre for Material Culture, the Netherlands (2020-23) and a member of the editorial boards of Textile: The Journal of Cloth & Culture and Craft Research. Hemmings has curated, written and edited books related to textiles including Yvonne Vera: the Voice of Cloth (Kalliope paperbacks, 2008), Warp & Weft (Bloomsbury, 2012), In the Loop: Knitting Now (Black Dress Press, 2012) and Cultural Threads (Bloomsbury, 2015).