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...
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...