by Jo Andrews
Haptic & Hue's Tales of Textiles explores the way in which cloth speaks to us and the impact it has on our lives. It looks at the different light textiles cast on the story of humanity. It thinks about the skills that go into constructing it and what it means to the people who use it.
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April 3, 2025
<p class="MsoNormal">Creativity and invention aren’t words often associated with hardship and suffering, but in the Second World War women in America and Britain faced with clothes rationing rose to the challenge in many different ways.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Those days are long past, but in an era of textile super-abundance, do clothes coupons have something new to teach us about how we buy and use our clothes? Can clothes rationing help cure us of an addiction to fast fashion? In this month’s episode, we hear from a well-known winner of the Great British Sewing Bee who has adopted the wartime system of coupons as a way of limiting her consumption of fabric and clothing.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Eighty years ago, Make Do and Mend became the watch-words of the day as people eked out their garments, repairing and re-making them over and over again. But clothes rationing in both countries also changed what people wore and hastened technological revolutions. In Britain many people had access to quality, well-styled clothing for the first time, and in America with luxury fibres scarce, man-made fibres entered the market much more quickly than they might otherwise have done.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more information about this episode and pictures of the people and places mentioned in this episode please go to </span><a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And if you would like to find out about Friends of Haptic & Hue with an extra podcast every month hosted by Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor – here’s the link: <a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/join/">https://hapticandhue.com/join/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
March 6, 2025
<p class="MsoNormal">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 new in fashion. We have tunics that survive from the time of the Pharaohs in Egypt that use it and you can see it still in the catwalk collections of today. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">It’s incredible to think that the simple pleat has pleased the human eye for so long and in so many different ways. Pleating adds movement and life to garments and often signals wealth and abundance. Each culture has found its own way to use them, from the stitched smocks of early English farm workers to the glorious billowing dress Marilyn Munroe wore above the subway grating in the 1950s.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">This episode tells the story of the pleats on the world’s oldest surviving garment, hears from an expert modern pleater in New York, and tries to unravel the mystery behind one of the world’s most famous pleated garments.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more information about this episode and pictures of the people and places mentioned in this episode please go to</span> <a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. </span></span>And if you would like to find out about Friends of Haptic & Hue with an extra podcast every month hosted by Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor – here’s the link: <a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/join/">https://hapticandhue.com/join/</a></p>
February 6, 2025
<p class="MsoNormal">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 not only a riot of craft and colour, but a reminder of the crucial role of textiles in framing our histories.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford, in the UK, has just added 15 brand new, intensely colourful Hawaiian quilts to its collection of extraordinary artifacts. These skilfully stitched quilts were specially made for the Museum, which holds more than half a million precious objects from all over the world and from all periods of human existence.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Quilting is a craft that over two hundred years Hawaiians have made very much their own – although it was first brought to the islands by incomers. They have developed a unique style that embeds the deep beliefs and rituals of Hawaiian life and keeps them alive in the designing, making, and gifting of these beautiful quilts.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">For more information about this episode and pictures of the people and places mentioned in this episode please go to</span> <a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-7/</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style= "mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">And if you would like to find out about Friends of Haptic & Hue with an extra podcast every month hosted by Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor – here’s the link: <a href= "https://hapticandhue.com/join/">https://hapticandhue.com/join/</a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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