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...