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The Culture of Cloth
by Veronica Tucker
Clothing is never just clothing.Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette is telling you something. About power, politics and whose story got told and whose didn’t. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story. Starting with the cloth itself and then following it wherever it leads.Most fashion history looks at the outside. This show looks at the inside. The construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. The women who encoded military intelligence into knitting. The weavers whose binary logic built the first computer. The dyers, the spinners, the pattern cutters whose names were never written down.Cloth tells the truth even when the official record doesn’t.For makers and thinkers. For everyone who has ever looked at a garment and felt there was more to it than they were being told.Hosted by Veronica Tucker.
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The Most Powerful Colour in History Smelled of Garlic
The most coveted colour in the ancient world came from a sea snail that smelled of garlic and cost more than gold. Tyrian purple built empires, wrote laws, and ended careers and when Constantinople fell in 1453, the knowledge of how to make it disappeared almost entirely.In this episode we trace the colour from the Phoenician city of Tyre to the courts of Rome and Byzantium, through the chemistry that made it impossible to fake, and the laws that made wearing the wrong shade a capital offence.This episode is part of The Goddess Project, a series tracing the history of cloth, colour, and the body from ancient Mesopotamia to the 20th century.If you want to see the colour while you listen, the full carousel is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYGCiWYk09m/?igsh=bW13YWZjNmpiZzVsQuotes from Kassia St Clair’s The Secret Lives of Colour used with her kind permission. Find her at https://www.instagram.com/kassiastclair?igsh=NjdvZWMwb296YXhh.Find me at https://www.instagram.com/veronicatuckerthelabel?igsh=MXkxNGNtNTVlZDUycQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr or search Veronica Tucker the Label.
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Women Invented Binary Code
Women invented binary code. They ran it by hand across thousands of threads, encoded it into the punched cards that built the first computer and knitted it through enemy checkpoints during wartime. We didn't call it code because we didn't call anything women did by its right name. This is the story of fabric as information technology and the consistent pattern of who builds the foundation and whose name ends up on it.Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veronicatuckerthelabel/
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Clothing is never just clothing.Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette is telling you something. About power, politics and whose story got told and whose didn’t. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story. Starting with the cloth itself and then following it wherever it leads.Most fashion history looks at the outside. This show looks at the inside. The construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. The women who encoded military intelligence into knitting. The weavers whose binary logic built the first computer. The dyers, the spinners, the pattern cutters whose names were never written down.Cloth tells the truth even when the official record doesn’t.For makers and thinkers. For everyone who has ever looked at a garment and felt there was more to it than they were being told.Hosted by Veronica Tucker.
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