Travels with Textiles October 2023

This Month's Travels with Textiles takes a look at why Repair is the New Cool in The Netherlands, but what happens when no one knows how to do it any longer? Reaction to the EU Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johannsson, knitting in the Parliament during an important speech, and we hear from the founders of the US based Tempestry Project about why and how they created a universal yarn set to measure climate change.   There's also news of a show in London looking at propaganda and political textiles, from the French Revolution to Brexit, an interview with the master weaver, Helena Loermans, who re-creates the complex canvases of the old masters, and information about a new book on how the some of the hippies of the 1960 and 70s turned into expert textiles collectors and dealers. all this and more in this month's Friends of Haptic & Hue.