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...
Welcome to May’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. This month’s episode runs the entire social scale of textiles from the incredible skills that went into the making of the King’s Coronation robes...
In the immediate post-war period some very well-known artists agreed to design limited runs of textiles, for the simple reason that, in many cases, they were desperate for work. The result is some of the most stunning and interesting fabrics of the 20th century. Here's...
There's a seawater theme this month with the discovery of a silk dress that's been on the seabed for more than 350 years and the uncovering of an ancient Shetland method of fulling cloth in sea coves. We look at an exhibition that presents the...
Sewing rolls can tell us extraordinary stories of lives lived. These are commonplace things, often overlooked, but they are a vital part of the sewer's and repairer's kit. In the past, they were used as much by men as by women. No soldier or sailor...
We launch the textile lovers guide, Paris in Textiles, explore fabrics in films, unravel a story of hardship in the American midwest from an old blue sewing roll, and preview two new textile exhibitions about quilts coming up in New York and London. ...
Paris is the world's finest city for buying and looking at textiles and trimmings. There is nowhere to equal it. But you need to know where to look and how to find its treasures. Here's a guide from Jo Andrews of Haptic & Hue and...
Travels with Textiles with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor looks this month at textiles of disaster and textiles of memory. It explores how Japan's seamstresses pay tribute to their worn out and broken needles, and it introduces a new book about a rare survivor -...