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.
The History and Use of Tatting: An Interview with Dr Brenda Rewhorn – Sew What?
In this episode Isabella interviews Dr Brenda Rewhorn, the chairman of the Ring of Tatters and a maker of all sorts of textiles who did her PhD on the history of tatting. The two talk about the development of tatting, the different types of tatting that are practiced, the tools involved in tatting production, and modern day uses of it. You can join the Ring of Tatters here: https://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/.Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.
- The History and Use of Tatting: An Interview with Dr Brenda Rewhorn
- Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes: An Interview with Dr Eleanor Houghton
- 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
- Art X Fashion: An Interview with Dr Elizabeth Way
- 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
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