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...
Welcome to November’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. This month’s episode explores ancient textiles with special guest Margarita Gleba: how do textiles survive thousands of years and what they tell us about...
Haptic & Hue and Textile Tours of Paris have just published a wonderful guide for the discerning traveller interested in the best that Dublin has to offer. Textile Travels Dublin tells you about the fine tweeds and woollens, the quality weaving and tailoring, Irish lace...
Welcome to October’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. This month’s episode explores why Repair is the New Cool in The Netherlands and what happens when no-one knows how to do it any...
Look at a painting and what do you see – a great work of art or a textile? New research done by Helena Loermans, a Dutch weaver living in Portugal, shows that far from being plain woven canvas, pictures by some of the best-known Old...
Welcome back to Travels with Textiles after our summer break. This is the monthly podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, hosted by Bill Taylor and Jo Andrews, it brings you textile news from around the world, information from listeners, updates from previous podcasts...
Haptic & Hue and Gray MCA have collaborated to make a new film about the visionary textile designer Barbara Brown in celebration of her 90th Birthday. Barbara Brown was one of the best known textile designers of the mid-20th century. Her strongly geometric work was...
The story of nearly half a million quilts made by the women and children of Canada and sent to Europe to comfort refugees and those bombed out of their homes in the Second World War is one that touched many. But, it was a labour...
Welcome to June’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. Quilts are at the centre of this month’s episode. Quilts of comfort, quilts of protest, quilts of heritage, and quilts that arrive mysteriously in...
The Royal School of Needlework has been involved in Coronations for 150 years, most recently in the crowning of King Charles and Queen Camilla. Anne Butcher, Head of the School's Studio and Standards, talks to Jo Andrews of Haptic & Hue about the months of...