Welcome to the first of the monthly Travels with Textiles, the episodes just for Friends of Haptic & Hue where Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor go behind the scenes of how the podcast is made, find out more about the tales that are too good...
How did the paisley motif become a much-loved symbol of Provence? In the south of France, it has been used on everything from folk dress of the 18th and 19th centuries to table cloths, bedcoverings, waistcoats, curtains, dress fabric, and more. Paisley is a pattern...
Coming to London and love textiles? London is a wonderful city for all kinds of cloth and fabric. It houses incredible textile history from the Romans to the Huguenots, from Kings Road to Portobello Road, and it has some of the world's most wonderful museums,...
A special offer for Friends of Haptic & Hue on the exclusive French embroidery kit from Textile Tours of Paris, plus five hours of self-guided tuition from Rebecca Devaney to learn all the stitches. ...
Friends of Haptic & Hue is the way to discover the stories behind the Tales of Textiles podcasts and to find out more about the extraordinary world of cloth and what it has to tell us about humanity. This introduction tells you a little bit...