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...
Woven through the fabric of the city of New York are the textile traditions of the people who made the journey across the Atlantic to seek a better life. New York is a celebration of the contribution of waves of talented immigrants and the...
In this month’s Travels with Textiles, Georgina von Etzdorf, one of the most talented textile designers to come out of Britain since William Morris, tells us how she began as a designer and why she and her partners have decided to sell their incredible archive....
Welcome to March’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. In this month’s episode we look at the most extensive collection of Bronze Age textiles and fibres found so far in the UK at...
Venice is one of the great textile cities of the world. For centuries it was a centre of intense cultural activity and exchange across the Mediterranean. Venice has always been a place where original design and superb craftsmanship is prized and rewarded. That is still...
Welcome to February’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. In this month’s episode we commemorate the first women to go to university in Britain, through a ground-breaking new 3D tapestry triptych woven by...
For the poor of the Victorian era the fun and interesting jumble or rummage sales were a serious business and a vital resource to help find the clothes necessary to send their children to school and dress themselves. Emma Donovan’s new research explores their hidden...
Welcome to January’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. In this month’s episode we meet Lesley and Kate – who are among the stars of a new animated short film called Visible Mending...
Lyon is a fantastic city for the traveller interested in textiles. It is the birthplace of the famous Jacquard loom and was once the beating heart of Europe's luxury textile industry. Thousands of silk weavers once made this their home turning out some of the...