Mar 16, 2023
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 was without his ‘huswif’, the old term for a sewing roll derived...
Mar 16, 2023
Welcome to this month’s Travels with Textiles, the podcast just for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. In this episode we launch Haptic & Hue’s new guide: Paris in Textiles, we discover the story wrapped up in an antique sewing roll and we explore why what Geoffrey Chaucer wore...