
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.
Sew What? Goes to India, Part 1: Chanakya International and Chanakya School of Craft – Sew What?
In the first part of this two-part episode about needlework in India, Isabella interviews the staff at Chanakya, based in Mumbai.Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.You can find out more about Chanakya International here: https://chanakya.in/ and the Chanakya School of Craft here: https://chanakya.school/index.php. You can also find them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/chanakya.in/ and https://www.instagram.com/chanakya.school/.
- Sew What? Goes to India, Part 1: Chanakya International and Chanakya School of Craft
- Sew What? Goes to India, Part 2: Shrujan and Shrujan LLDC
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- 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