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 American Folk Art Museum's New Schoolgirl Art Exhibition!: An Interview with Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp – Sew What?
In this episode Isabella interviews Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp, co-curators of the upcoming exhibition Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art at the American Folk Art Museum. The three talk about the exhibition, the pieces within it, and how themes of identity, belonging, and place emerge in schoolgirl needlework and other art forms. The exhibition opens on 9 October 2026.You can find out more about the exhibition here: https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/locating-girlhood/. You can buy the accompanying book here: https://shop.folkartmuseum.org/locating-girlhood-place-and-identity-in-early-amer.html. Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.
- The American Folk Art Museum's New Schoolgirl Art Exhibition!: An Interview with Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp
- Dress, Textiles, and Needlework of the Irish Poor: An Interview with Dr Eliza McKee
- 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
