#54: Making Meaning with Dr Isabella Rosner

This episode is more of the summer of stitch series, this time with the brilliant Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework curator, podcaster and all round historic embroidery enthusiast. She has been part of the Mary Linwood fan club for years and we had a wonderful time talking about all the complexities of Linwood's career and making practice, and reflecting on her legacy and why she's been so ignored in the last hundred and fifty years. Dr Isabella Rosner is the curator of textiles and contextual studies lecturer at the Royal School of Needlework. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and author of Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press). Isabella also hosts the Sew What? podcast about historical needlework and those who stitched it. Website Instagram Sew What? podcast Ruth on Sew What? Podcast from 2021 Find out more about Ruth's Mary Linwood project Full details of the episode , including a transcript

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#54: Making Meaning with Dr Isabella Rosner is an episode from Making Meaning by Ruth Singer.

This episode is 01:08:17 long.

This episode was published on Aug 31, 2025.

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