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Textiles have an incredible power to talk to us, if we can hear them. They comfort and console us, create memories, define who we are and what we might believe in. They are a detective story...
There is a little mannequin which has played a hidden role in history. We admire the portraits of the great men and women of the past dresse...
In a small corner of London lies one of the most evocative collection of textiles anywhere in the world. The fabrics – which are quite ordin...
An extraordinary new exhibition has just opened in the small Alabama township of Gees Bend, and it gives us some clues as to why this commun...
It's nearly five years since the Anglo Trinidadian textile designer, Althea McNish, died in near obscurity in London. In that time her reput...
Textiles have a tremendous power to hold our culture and identity, more so than most understand. For thousands of years the Coast Salish peo...
Hooked rugs are humble things made of recycled cloth and worn out textiles, originally born of need and lack: and yet they have come to mean...
If you were asked to stitch a picture of your brain what would it look like? A project that looks at the connection between our hands and ou...
If we need proof that textiles can rewrite human history, then it lies with the bog bodies of northern Europe. Textile archaeologists are re...
Here's a surprise! An extra episode of Haptic & Hue. We said we were taking a break for July and August and yes, we are. But we thought we w...
A very special tartan has just started to roll off the weaving looms of the Prickly Thistle Mill in the north of Scotland. This brand-new de...
Early this year there was a catastrophic fire at the world's biggest market for selling and upcycling second-hand clothes. Kantamanto market...
Creativity and invention aren't words often associated with hardship and suffering, but in the Second World War women in America and Britain...
There's a fashion technique that's been in continuous use for over five thousand years – proof, if proof is needed, that there is nothing ne...
What happens when one of the most traditional museums in the world revolutionises the way it presents the story of the past? The answer is n...
Tapestries for Troubled Times The stitches of the Bayeux Tapestry fix the story of the Norman Conquest of England in our imaginations in an...
A coarse, plain cloth has a greater claim to being the most important textile in history than any sumptuous silk brocade or royal robe. Sail...
There is a global flax revival underway. In the great linen belt of North Western Europe, the land under cultivation has more than doubled i...
Exactly thirty years ago a book came out that changed the way we think about textiles and fibre and the role they've played in the human sto...
The American cotton feed sack is the stuff of legend. From the 1850s onwards it was skilfully repurposed by women across America into all ki...
An extraordinary quilt handstitched by convict women on board ship as they were transported from Britain to Australia in 1841 has just gone...
From the grandest palace to the poorest cottage, so-called 'stained' cloths brought colour and joy to everyday life in England for hundreds...
Great tapestries have been used to decorate and embellish homes and palaces for centuries, and yet the hands that created these works remain...
There's a piece of clothing that has a good claim to being a universal garment. It is thousands of years old and yet it featured on the catw...
As the war in the Ukraine brutally shows, few people have had as hard a struggle down the centuries to maintain their identity as Ukrainians...
The needle and thread have been humanity's constant companions for tens of thousands of years: far longer than the dog, the sword, or the wh...
Sewing is one of the most vital but also one of the most overlooked human crafts. Every piece of clothing we wear has been put together by s...
There is a quiet revolution happening on Savile Row in London, home to some of the world's finest men's outfitters, as the makers of bespoke...
Have you ever wanted a Picasso on your walls – or maybe a Joan Miro, a Chagall, or perhaps a Raoul Dufy? For a time in the mid-50s in Americ...
Who doesn't love a good tartan? It is everywhere from high fashion catwalks to shooting parties on winter hillsides, from military uniforms...
This is the tale of how textiles played a central part in one of the great cultural and artistic upheavals of the last century, helping to b...
Warning: This podcast and the text below uses terms considered offensive and inappropriate today. An extraordinary sample of indigo cloth ha...
It's Carnival season, time to take to the streets for a party and see the spectacle. But Carnival is about so much more than that. At its he...
The little needle is one of the oldest tools in existence. We know that human beings began to use them more than sixty thousand years ago. N...
Clothes are a window to our identity – they tell others who we are, what we believe in, and whether we are rich or poor, powerful or powerle...
Mary Queen of Scots is one of the most written about women in history. We think we know her well – but here's a new account that re-interpre...
Mary Queen of Scots is one of the most written about women in history. We think we know her well – but here's a new account that re-interpre...
Mary Queen of Scots is one of the most written about women in history. We think we know her well – but here's a new account that re-interpre...
A ragged flag and torn flag, nearly eighty years old was posted last month from a home not far from London. It doesn't look like much but it...
Imagine the person who sits behind the counter in the post office or serves your coffee in the Main Street coffee shop has a superpower, one...
What happens to your old clothes? Do you drop them off at the charity shop or turn them into the textile recycling bin at the store? They le...
The long arc of human history has been accompanied since the 1400s one way or another by lace. The Italians call this, delightfully, 'Stitch...
The Italian Renaissance produced glorious masterpieces by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo who are justly feted for their ta...
In 18th century London, the secret of your birth could literally hang by a thread. If your mother took you to the Foundling Hospital because...
Over the past months, we have watched in horror as nearly ten million people have fled their homes in Ukraine to escape the Russian invasion...
Welcome to the fourth season of Haptic and Hue's Tales of Textiles. This season is called Threads of Survival and the eight episodes focus o...
Can a nation simply forget an astonishing operation in which its women and children made nearly half a million quilts to comfort the victims...
Samplers tell stories in stitch, but whose tale are they telling? Perhaps the story of a young woman describing her family and choosing her...
There's a way of producing cloth that has been called 200 years of secrecy and lies. It has played a central role in wars, and slavery. It w...
How do textiles shape a city, and how, in turn, does a city and its people shape and change the world of textiles? This episode looks at wha...
African Wax Cloth is having its moment in the sun and it seems to be everywhere, from the catwalks of Paris and New York to the humblest cou...