Knitting, Memory and Disobedience

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“The skin of a person who knits has a tactile competence that exceeds the possibilities of words,” says the Mexican writer Penélope Córdova in Texere. Variations on writings and fabrics (Las Afueras, 2025). Reading her textile essay, I have thought of my grandmother several times, my grandmother and her threads. “Hands always remember,” and hands that knit have a separate memory. My grandmother, in the midst of dementia, had not forgotten everyt…