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Friends of Haptic & Hue

This is extra content just for Friends of Haptic & Hue. Here"s where you will find out more about the rich and often hidden world of cloth, with new stories from our travels and discoveries, interviews, fresh audio, book recommendations, and follow-ups from past podcasts.

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Travels with Textiles November 25

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2025/11/20

What's in a carpet? A great deal according to the historian and carpet scholar Dorothy Armstrong, who has just published a book called Threads of Empire: A History of the World in 12 Carpets. For centuries carpets have been the most coveted and expensive of textiles, they have even attracted carpet forgers, and almost no other textile has done that. Every empire builder, king and prince has wanted the finest carpets to signify his power and status. But so often the carpets themselves have been

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Travels with Textiles October 2025

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2025/10/16

It is hard to think of a greater contrast than the opulent style of the ill-fated Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, and the misery of decades of clothes rationing under Cuba’s Communist regime. But this month Haptic and Hue’s Travels with Textiles considers both, and also takes a look at the forgotten French couturier who helped to rescue women from corsets in the early 20th century Was Marie Antoinette a fashion victim who came to a nasty end or was she one of most important style icons the

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Travels with Textiles September 2025

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2025/09/18

Danish Design is globally famous and has been exported around the world. But what about Danish textiles? For the first time the renowned Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen has an exhibition devoted to the textile designers of the past 100 years who contributed so much so the Danish design movement. We talk to the curator as she tells us why these largely female designers produced work that was so different from their British and American counterparts. We also investigate Bog Fashion, a new book

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Travels with Textiles July 2025

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2025/07/17

Five thousand years ago, weavers in southern Egypt were given one of the oddest commissions they must ever have received. Please make a linen shroud for an elephant. Why were they asked to do this, and how long did it take them? This is just one of the themes that we are exploring in this month’s episode of Travels with Textiles, which comes from the wonderful Centre for Textile Research in Copenhagen. There are just a handful of textile research centres around the world, and most of them are

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Travels with Textiles June 2025

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2025/06/19

A new project is just getting underway in Western Norway to document the craft skills of the Arctic peoples that enabled them, down the centuries, to create beautiful handstitched clothing perfectly fitted to the environment. The University of Bergen is working in collaboration with people from the European Arctic, Greenland, and Western Canada to analyse and understand some of the incredible skills that go into making clothing that can withstand some of the harshest environments on earth. For

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Travel with Textiles May 2025

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2025/05/15

UNESCO has just announced that it is adding an old quilting practice to the list of crafts that have intangible cultural heritage status. Quilting in a flat frame with a rocking stitch has a history that stretches back certainly to the 16th century and maybe much further. This is one of the original forms of quilting on cloth, creating beautiful and complex patterns as it is done. This technique often produces a style of quilting known as whole cloth quilts. Hand quilting in a frame is being

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Travels with Textiles April 2025

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2025/04/17

Mary Schoeser is one of the world’s great authorities on textiles. She has devoted her life to understanding textiles and the extraordinary stories behind them. Now the Fashion and Textile Museum in London has just opened a new exhibition curated by her. In this month’s Friends of Haptic & Hue we have a special interview with Mary where she talks to us about the exhibition and how she put it together. Last week the Dublin-based textile archaeologist, Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, died after a long

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Travels with Textiles March 2025

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2025/03/20

In this episode of Friends of Haptic & Hue Bill and Jo travel to the unique Westminster Menswear’s Archive in London to talk to Professor Andrew Groves about how men dress and what their clothes tell us about who they are and what they want from their garments. Professor Groves says men’s clothing has been overlooked compared to women’s wear and that it hasn’t been thought or written about in the same way. He believes women’s fashion tends to be about spectacle, but men’s clothing is much more

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Travels with Textiles February 2025

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2025/02/20

DNA testing is normally used to solve modern crimes, but textile archaeologists are beginning to use it to unravel the mysteries of the past. It can tell us about the origin of fur and leather used in clothing constructed five thousand years ago, or it can track down where the sheep’s wool or silk used in garments came from. In this episode of Friends of Haptic & Hue, we are at a special winter school of textile archaeologists, held in Italy, finding out about the latest techniques and research

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Travels with Textiles January 2025

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2025/01/16

Imagine committing yourself to a project that you knew would take almost a decade of your life: that's what Sandra Sawatsky did when she started on her embroidery project to tell the epic story of our relationship with oil in all its forms. The Black Gold Tapestry, which runs to 220 feet and uses 23 miles of thread, starts in pre-history and traces the environmental and societal changes that man’s quest for oil has brought about, right up to the current era of climate change. It goes on show

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43:27

Best of Friends 2024

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2024/12/27

As 2024 comes to a close, we wanted to send the year away with a look back at some of your favourite episodes of Haptic & Hue. We learn a great deal from researching and putting together each one, but we wondered: what do they add up to? Does paying close attention to textiles down the ages reframe history in a fresh way? For this programme – called the Best of Friends - we have put together excerpts of some of the episodes you loved, all from different time periods - to tell us a new story about

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Travels with Textiles November 2024

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2024/11/21

Friends of Haptic & Hue are celebrating their second birthday this month and to mark the occasion we are adopting two stitches in your name at the Royal School of Needlework’s Stitchbank. Bayeux Stitch and Knotting both have extraordinary stories behind them which you can hear more about in this month’s episode of Travels with Textiles, as well as the work that goes into Stitchbank itself as an effort to document every stitch in the world as an invaluable part of human culture and heritage. We

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Travels with Textiles October 2024

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2024/10/17

200 years of the finest Scottish embroidered art goes on show in Edinburgh next week. Many of the pieces have never been seen in public before. This extraordinary collection comes out of the castles, grand houses, cottages, and tenements cared for by the National Trust for Scotland. The Trust’s work is usually associated with landscapes, buildings, furniture, and art, but in a sign of the growing interest in textile heritage, the Trust has identified the best pieces it holds and had them properly

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Travels with Textiles September 2024

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2024/09/19

What do clothes tell us about the times we live in and the people we are? A unique collection of American women’s clothing goes on display in New York in the next few days. This is very far from the art or elite clothing normally held in museums and galleries: instead, this is what women really wore in good times and bad. Kiki Smith, who created this collection as a research resource, says that these garments have a huge amount to tell us: if anyone reads Steinbeck’s book, The Grapes of Wrath and

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Travels with Textiles July 2024

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2024/07/18

Hampton Court Palace – just outside London – is famous for once being one of Henry the Eighth’s favourite palaces. This is where he played tennis and courted some of his wives and, unsurprisingly, it is still rumoured to have several ghosts. Today they share the palace with one of the great institutions of the stitching world. The Royal School of Needlework is based at the palace, it has a professional studio, where it creates ceremonial garments for events like the coronations of Kings and Queens,

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Travels with Textiles June 2024

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2024/06/20

The 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings took place this month, with much reflection on the lasting peace that the end of World War II brought to a devasted Europe. This episode of Travels with Textiles looks at how textiles have been used to mark and commemorate conflict and war. We tell the extraordinary story of Canada’s Izzy dolls, two million of which have been distributed to children caught in conflict around the world. We go to Nottingham in England to look at a commemoration of the

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Travels With Textiles May 2024

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2024/05/16

Faith Ringgold – who died last month – was an extraordinary artist and chronicler of 20th century American life. She used many media to carry her message and some of her best-loved works are her story quilts – pieces that combine craft, art, and activism, like Echoes of Harlem, Tar Beach, and Street Story. In this episode of Travels with Textiles we pay tribute to Ringgold’s astonishing talent in an interview with Dr Sharbreon Plummer. We also explore the lost knitting patterns of a remote corner of

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Travels with Textiles April 2024

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2024/04/18

Georgina von Etzdorf has been called the most talented textile designer to come out of Britain since William Morris. Her fabrics, which had their roots in the Arts and Crafts movement, helped to define the 1980s and 90s and were worn by rock stars and royalty alike. In this month’s episode she talks to Travels with Textiles about how she started as a designer and why she has now decided to sell her extraordinary archive. We also explore the lace makers of Burano as we launch the new textile guide to

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Travels With Textiles March 24

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2024/03/21

The final report into the most extensive collection of Bronze Age textiles and fibres ever found in the UK at a site that has been called Britain’s Pompeii is published this week. Travels with Textiles has an exclusive interview with the textile archaeologist who has spent years studying the materials from the site. We travel to Morocco to see the rug weavers and think about their changing lives, there’s a sweater that’s been lost in the post for 200 years and we say farewell to the last of the

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Travels with Textiles February 2024

Friends of Haptic & Hue ·

2024/02/15

The first women to go to university in Britain are commemorated in a ground-breaking new 3D tapestry triptych woven by Dovecot Studios. It will have its world premiere on March 8th, International Women’s Day. It honours the Edinburgh Seven who all studied medicine at Edinburgh University - they had a tremendous fight to get to medical school and an even greater one to complete their studies. We also hear about the history of jumble and rummage sales and as much as we may think of these as

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