This month we find out about a mystery collection of lace donated to the New York Met in 1908 that has been called the Rosetta Stone of lace. We hear how DNA technology is being used to unravel the secrets of ancient clothing and...
Friends of Haptic & Hue is back with the first episode of 2025 in which we talk to a stitcher who committed herself to a project that took nearly a decade of her life. In this month's Travels with Textiles, Sandra Sawatsky talks about her...
As 2024 comes to a close, we wanted to send the year away with a look back at some of your favourite episodes of Haptic & Hue. We learn a great deal from researching and putting together each one, but we wondered: what do they...
Friends of Haptic & Hue is celebrating its second birthday this month and to mark the occasion we are adopting two stitches in your name at the Royal School of Needlework’s Stitchbank. They are the Bayeux Stitch and Knotting Stitch. Join us in this episode...
To celebrate Friends of Haptic & Hue's second birthday and to mark your support to the podcast, we have adopted two stitches at the Royal School of Needlework's famed Stitchbank. Stitchbank is an incredible effort to document every stitch in the world as a living...
A remarkable new exhibition showcasing the very best of the textile heritage that the National Trust for Scotland’s palaces, castles, cottages and tenement flats hold opens next week at Dovecot Studios, in Edinburgh. It is called Stitched: Scotland’s Embroidered Art. Join us in this episode...
What do clothes tell us about the times we live in and the people we are? A unique collection of American women’s clothing goes on display in New York in a few days’ time. Join us this month to hear Kiki Smith, who founded the...
Join us this month in Travels with Textiles as we take our microphones to Hampton Court Palace, the home of the Royal School of Needlework, to talk to the School's curator, Isabella Rosner. She has the mammoth job of looking after the School's entire collection...
This episode of Travels with Textiles looks at the way in which textiles have been used to mark and commemorate conflict and war, as we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings this month. We tell the extraordinary story of Canada’s Izzy dolls, two...
Faith Ringgold – who died last month – was a great artist and chronicler of 20th century America. She used many media but her best loved pieces were her story quilts – works that combined craft, art and activism, like Echoes of Harlem, Tar...