Sew What?
Sew What? is a weekly podcast that celebrates historic needlework and those who stitched it. Isabella Rosner, your local needlework expert, explores all types of needlecraft (including embroidery, knitting, weaving, nålbinding, quilting, lacemaking, and everything in between) from around the world and across continents and interviews leading textile artists, scholars, and curators. After three successful seasons with a total of 62 episodes, Sew What? is releasing standalone episodes. The historic needlework goodness never stops! Listen here or on your favourite podcast app and look out for new episodes dropping on Thursdays at 12pm BST.
Collecting Samplers: An Interview with Alexandra Peters – Sew What?
In this episode, Isabella interviews Alexandra Peters about her sampler collection and the importance of studying samplers. Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.Alexandra's website is https://www.alexandralallypeters.com/. You can learn about her upcoming talks at Norwalk Historical Society and Suffield Historical Society here: https://www.alexandralallypeters.com/talks. Alexandra also mentions https://www.thesamplerguild.co.uk/, http://www.samplerconsortiuminternational.org, and antiquesamplers.com.
- Collecting Samplers: An Interview with Alexandra Peters
- Textile Conservation and Marie Antoinette Style: An Interview with Hannah Sutherland
- Chinese Textiles in 18th-Century Britain: An Interview with Shilei Zeng
- The History of Punch Needle: An Interview with Micah Clasper-Torch
- The Embroidery of Lorina Bulwer: An Interview with Ruth Battersby
- The Late, Great Major A.T. Casdagli: An Interview with Alexis Penny Casdagli
- Sew What? Meets Haptic & Hue: An Interview with Jo Andrews
- Holiday Special!: Gathered at Gressenhall
- Plantation Goods: An Interview with Dr Seth Rockman
- Samplers by Free, Freed, and Enslaved Schoolgirls: An Interview with Sarah Brokenborough
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