Travels with Textiles September 2025

Danish Design is globally famous and has been exported around the world. But what about Danish textiles? For the first time the renowned Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen has an exhibition devoted to the textile designers of the past 100 years who contributed so much so the Danish design movement. We talk to the curator as she tells us why these largely female designers produced work that was so different from their British and American counterparts.   We also investigate Bog Fashion, a new book that tells you not just how to craft your own Bronze and Iron Age clothes but also how to make the bone needles and the thorn pins that our ancestors would have used thousands of years ago. This was the age when woven and dyed fabrics took over from skin and fur and when our clothes became routinely made from cut and sewn fabrics.   The Edinburgh Street Stitchers have become a familiar sight in the Scottish capital but now to spread the mending word Mary Morton and Jeanna Wigger have written a handbook of repair which takes you right from threading a needle to the successful conclusion of a mend. It's for anyone who has been afraid of a hole in their favourite garment. Find out more in this month's episode of Friends of Haptic & Hue, along with a chance to win some very special textile gifts from Venice.