Travels with Textiles April 2025

Mary Schoeser is one of the world's great authorities on textiles. She has devoted her life to understanding textiles and the extraordinary stories behind them. Now the Fashion and Textile Museum in London has just opened a new exhibition curated by her. In this month's Friends of Haptic & Hue we have a special interview with Mary where she talks to us about the exhibition and how she put it together.   Last week the Dublin-based textile archaeologist, Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, died after a long illness. She was a remarkable thinker about textiles, writing about the clothes worn by the famous Lewis chessmen and defining the little caps that were worn by Viking women and girls in Dublin and York. Her death came shortly after a beautiful new book was published of her work called Textiles of Ireland, edited by Mary Ann Williams. We hear from May Ann and we have a special discount enabling you to get 20% off the book in the notes for this episode.