Nov 13, 2023
We are time-travelling this month back to the distant past. It’s all about ancient textiles in November's Travels with Textiles: how they can survive thousands of years and what they tell us about human existence and our enduring love of fashion and decoration. We invited Margarita Gleba, one of the world’s great...
Oct 19, 2023
This Month’s Travels with Textiles takes a look at why Repair is the New Cool in The Netherlands, but what happens when no one knows how to do it any longer? Reaction to the EU Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johannsson, knitting in the Parliament during an important speech, and we hear from the founders of the US...
Oct 18, 2023
Look at a painting and what do you see – a great work of art or a textile? Many of the old masters from the Renaissance onwards are painted on canvas, which is in fact stretched hand-woven linen. New research done by a Dutch weaver living in Portugal shows that far from being plain woven canvas, pictures by some of...
Sep 21, 2023
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, and previews of podcasts to come. This month we...
Jun 15, 2023
Quilts are at the centre of this month’s Travels with Textiles. Quilts of comfort, quilts of protest, quilts of heritage, and quilts that arrive mysteriously in the post. The most important news is that more than 60 of the quilts that were made by the women and children of Canada during the Second World War to comfort...