New episode of the pod out tomorrow

New Textile guide to Edinburgh - just out

New podcast out this Thursday www.hapticandhue.com #witches #tartan #scotland

Seen in Copenhagen: Donald v The Bear?

#quilting #craft #making #podcast

Linen Beetling goes on the list of critically endangered heritage crafts today

New podcast out today Textile Waste and The Catastrophe at Kantamanto www.hapticandhue.com/listen

Are these your clothes? There’s a good chance they are. Every week tonnes and tonnes of garments discarded by people in America and Europe end up here on Ghana’s beaches. How did they get here and how can we stop this? Coming this Thursday on www.hapticandhue.com/listen

Just published, ‘Transformations in Textiles, 1400-1760’, my (critical) homage to Jan De Vries’s ‘Industrious Revolution’. Available as an open access e-book chapter www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The one and only unique Westminster Menswear Archive with these two! Prof Andrew Groves and my pod co-host Bill Taylor on the right. Listen to them and sometimes me talk about what men want from their clothes in the new Friends of Haptic & Hue podcast out tomorrow. www.hapticandhue.com/join

Loved the exhibition of Rag Rugs in Middlesbrough- this is hidden art by women making their homes as warm and cheerful as possible

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

My heart goes out to Zelensky and Ukraine - but I know that these two bullies - Trump and Putin - will fail as so many have failed before to extinguish Ukraine - it lives on in the hearts and minds of its people beautifully expressed in the incredible stitched work

Last night in the company of Ukraine’s Scottish Community - couldn’t have been in a finer place with a better set of people - a wonderful celebration of Ukrainian & Scots identity

Today’s picture called The White Shirt painted 1922 by the Scottish colourist, FCB Cadell, of a merchant seaman called Jack Abrew who lived in Leith, part of Edinburgh. Fab portrait.

Giving away six copies of this great book published by @commonthreadspress about the quilts of Hawaii and the stories they tell with the new episode of Friends of Haptic & Hue out on Thursday www.hapticandhue.com/join

New Years Eve 1948 - Chelsea Arts Club Ball - the rules are very funny!

Just arrived - Textiles of Ireland by the wonderful Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, we could do with a bit of archaeology, craft and art.

Joan Eardley - painter of light - like no other. This was painted shortly before she died in 1963 up at Catterline on the NE coast of Scotland. It’s for sale. Buying my lottery tickets again - fingers crossed.

New episode out of Haptic and Hue’s Tales of Textiles - you can find it at www.hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/ All about the extraordinary Hawaiian quilts that express the stories of the islands’ creation, culture and environment.

New episode out of Haptic and Hue’s Tales of Textiles - you can find it at www.hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/ All about the extraordinary Hawaiian quilts that express the stories of the islands’ creation, culture and environment.

Hawaiian quilts tell stories about myth, belief, family and environment. The quilters are the keepers of a living, breathing culture. Find out more in the new episode of Haptic & Hue coming tomorrow www.haticandhue.com

What happens when museums realise that culture is not just about the past but an ever changing part of our lives. Listen to the story of the commission of 15 Hawaiian quilts by the Pitt Rivers Museum in the new Haptic & Hue podcast out on Thursday www.hapticandhue.com

Here’s the kalo or taro plant depicted on a Hawaiian Quilt. This plant is like a sibling to Hawaiians - if they take care of it - it will take care of them. Find out more about these quilts in the new Haptic & Hue podcast out on Thursday www.hapticandhue.com

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