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.
John Craske, Fisherman Turned Embroiderer: An Interview with Lisa Little and Lesley Lougher – Sew What?
In this episode Isabella interviews Lisa Little, curator of Sheringham Museum at the Mo, and Lesley Lougher, volunteer and former trustee of Sheringham Museum at the Mo, about John Craske (1881-1943). John Craske was a Norfolk fisherman who took to painting and embroidery after falling ill. The trio talk about how Craske came to embroider, the style and content of his stitching, and how a group of women put his work on the map. You can learn more about the museum here: https://www.sheringhammuseum.co.uk/. You can buy Lesley Lougher and Jan Hillier's book about John Craske here: https://www.sheringhammuseum.co.uk/product/john-craske-fisherman-painter-in-wools/. You can learn more about the Murmuration Tapestry here: https://nearlywildweaving.wordpress.com/the-murmuration-collaboration/. Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.
- John Craske, Fisherman Turned Embroiderer: An Interview with Lisa Little and Lesley Lougher
- 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
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