Travels with Textiles November 2024

Friends of Haptic & Hue are celebrating their second birthday this month and to mark the occasion we are adopting two stitches in your name at the Royal School of Needlework's Stitchbank. Bayeux Stitch and Knotting both have extraordinary stories behind them which you can hear more about in this month's episode of Travels with Textiles, as well as the work that goes into Stitchbank itself as an effort to document every stitch in the world as an invaluable part of human culture and heritage.   We find out what's so revolutionary about a tiny pair of pink hot-pants once worn by a politician on the steps of South Australia's Parliament. It's part of the long progressive tradition of that state which is commemorated this week with the opening of a new exhibition in Adelaide called Radical Textiles, which tracks profound social change and rupture through material. We also travel to New York to look at the, sometimes, surprising links down the centuries between printing and textiles.