With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
By Nicole Nehrig
W.W. Norton & Co., 2025

Spanning continents and centuries, With Her Own Hands tells how textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process trauma, and convey powerful messages of self-expression, beauty, and political protest. Nehrig brings together remarkable stories of women, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls math and geography, to the Miao women of southern China who, in the absence of a written language, pass down their histories in elaborate “story cloths.”

About the Author
Nicole Nehrig is a clinical and research psychologist who studied psychology and fine art at Washington University, St. Louis, before earning her PhD at Long Island University. Her passion for knitting and textile crafts is part of her practice and research. Nehrig and her family live in Brooklyn.

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