Dec 27, 2024
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...
Nov 21, 2024
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...
Oct 17, 2024
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...
Sep 19, 2024
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...
Jul 18, 2024
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...