Haptic & Hue Podcast
1) Althea McNish - Queen of Colour
It's nearly five years since the Anglo Trinidadian textile designer, Althea McNish, died in near obscurity in London. In that time her reputation and her standing has grown dramatically and she is now...Show More
2) The Dog Hair Blankets of the Coast Salish People
Textiles have a tremendous power to hold our culture and identity, more so than most understand. For thousands of years the Coast Salish people of the Pacific North West, which straddles the border be...Show More
3) Hooky Mats and Rag Rugs: How the Art of Necessity Helped Define a Nation
Hooked rugs are humble things made of recycled cloth and worn out textiles, originally born of need and lack: and yet they have come to mean much more to the communities that produced and enjoyed them...Show More
4) The Intelligence of The Hands & The Creative Brain
If you were asked to stitch a picture of your brain what would it look like? A project that looks at the connection between our hands and our brains asked people to do just that. It was aiming to meas...Show More
5) The Mysteries of the Marshes: The Ancient Textile Secrets of Europe's Bog Bodies
If we need proof that textiles can rewrite human history, then it lies with the bog bodies of northern Europe. Textile archaeologists are revealing a whole new past about people who, in some cases, ar...Show More
The Mysteries of the Marshes: The Ancient Textile Secrets of Europe's Bog Bodies
38:59 | Sep 4th, 2025
6) Reviving Rocking Stitch and Saving Wholecloth Quilting
Here's a surprise! An extra episode of Haptic & Hue. We said we were taking a break for July and August and yes, we are. But we thought we would give you a taste of what Friends of Haptic & Hue sounds...Show More
7) The Witches of Scotland: How a New Tartan Became a Living Memorial
A very special tartan has just started to roll off the weaving looms of the Prickly Thistle Mill in the north of Scotland. This brand-new design in black, pink, red, and grey is part of a powerful cam...Show More
8) Textile Waste and the Catastrophe at Kantamanto
Early this year there was a catastrophic fire at the world’s biggest market for selling and upcycling second-hand clothes. Kantamanto market, in Ghana’s capital Accra, was accidently set alight, and m...Show More
9) Coupons For Clothes: A Wartime Idea Made New?
Creativity and invention aren’t words often associated with hardship and suffering, but in the Second World War women in America and Britain faced with clothes rationing rose to the challenge in many ...Show More
10) Pleats Please: the Story of the World's Oldest Fashion Technique
There’s a fashion technique that’s been in continuous use for over five thousand years – proof, if proof is needed, that there is nothing new in fashion. We have tunics that survive from the time of t...Show More