Queen Victoria strove to make crochet more fashionable by buying crocheted lace crafted by Irish women striving to eke out a livelihood during the disastrous potato famine which decimated the ...

Rachael Mills, pictured in her home crochet studio in Blackburn, says she needs to see it herself to "believe it" A woman who crocheted a giant doily which an artist used to cover a vintage car ...

A crochet expert hopes the five metre wide doily she was commissioned to create will make people "recognise crochet as an art", after it made up part of a Turner Prize winning art installation.