The Mysterious Origins of Knitting
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20 of 74 episodesCommunity Makes a Nation: America's Folly Cove Designers
This summer marks the 250 th anniversary of America's founding as nation, born in a successful rebellion from the British crown. Events and...
Fashion and Pandora Dolls: How Style Travelled The World Before Printing and Cameras.
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...
Finding A Foundling - Textiles of Identity
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...
The Glorious Quilts of Gees Bend
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...
Althea McNish - Queen of Colour
It's nearly five years since the Anglo Trinidadian textile designer, Althea McNish, died in near obscurity in London. In that time her reput...
The Dog Hair Blankets of the Coast Salish People
Textiles have a tremendous power to hold our culture and identity, more so than most understand. For thousands of years the Coast Salish peo...
Hooky Mats and Rag Rugs: How the Art of Necessity Helped Define a Nation
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...
The Intelligence of The Hands & The Creative Brain
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...
The Mysteries of the Marshes: The Ancient Textile Secrets of Europe's Bog Bodies
If we need proof that textiles can rewrite human history, then it lies with the bog bodies of northern Europe. Textile archaeologists are re...
Reviving Rocking Stitch and Saving Wholecloth Quilting
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...
The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial
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...
Textile Waste and the Catastrophe at Kantamanto
Early this year there was a catastrophic fire at the world's biggest market for selling and upcycling second-hand clothes. Kantamanto market...
Coupons For Clothes: A Wartime Idea Made New?
Creativity and invention aren't words often associated with hardship and suffering, but in the Second World War women in America and Britain...
Pleats Please: the Story of the World's Oldest Fashion Technique
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...
The Quilts That Hold The Heart of Hawaii
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
Tapestries for Troubled Times The stitches of the Bayeux Tapestry fix the story of the Norman Conquest of England in our imaginations in an...
Plain Sailing: The Cloth That Turned The Tide of History
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...
Flax is Back! The Great Linen Revival
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...
Elizabeth Wayland Barber & The Age of String
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...