FIBRE Art PODCAST
Stitch Safari
Australian Textile Artist, Cathy Jack Coupland hosts this brand-new fortnightly safari-inspired podcast, journeying into the beguiling world of stitch, sewing, and embroidery, with insights into its history, use, and innovations. Join this unique expedition and thread your way into the amazing and irresistible world of needle and thread.
Latest Notes
Show notes, resources, and my thoughts
Writing a Podcast
What on earth drove me to create this podcast? Passion, pure and simple. I've always enjoyed stitching, and I find history utterly fascinating - I simply married the two together, so the entire ethos for the Stitch Safari podcasts will always revolve around history...
Book Review: A Needle in the Right Hand of God
The Bayeux Tapestry is a visual record of the Conquest of England, but more importantly, it’s a powerful visual representation of cultural memory from a time when literacy wasn’t markedly evident.
Book Review: The Subversive Stitch
Waxing lyrical about books is sort of my thing. I love books, so when a book actually takes me on a journey or makes me think - that's special. And that's what Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker did for me. To date, my interest in Feminism has been minimal. ...
Book Review: Women’s Work – The First 20,000 Years – Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
This book provides a fascinating world-view glimpse into patterns, clothing, spinning, weaving, trade and even language through the ways cloth-making shaped the lives of women.
String & Cloth
Cloth - that much used and overlooked everyday item we wear, sit upon, walk on or sleep between. It's simply there in our ready-made shirts, dresses, bespoke suits and household textiles, but how did cloth-making, come about? It's a story spanning eons. And it all...
Book Review: Guo Pei – Couture Beyond
Guo Pei, the first Chinese designer invited to join the prestigious Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture combines tradition, history and mythology producing unconventional and otherworldly designs – a reflection of her oeuvre. With a reverence for China’s imperial past and beauty, her aspiration is to bring that heritage into a reflection of today’s modern fashion currency.
The Wearable Cloth
Cloth envelops us from morning to night; we slumber between it, we use it to make our homes more comfortable and appealing, and according to statistics, a large percentage of people worldwide, work with it in the textile industry.
Book Review: The Golden Thread
The Golden Thread, How Fabric Changed History, written by Kassia St Clair, Published by John Murray Publishers, 2018. This is the sort of book I would read again and again. It’s an easy read, and extremely informative. Filled with craftily woven stories that bring...
Through The Eye of The Needle
'Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.' John F. Kennedy We know prehistoric man gave rise to the development of a simple implement that was truly life-changing and of world-wide significance. Something small, easily transportable, but a tool that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt8nJqgXLDg
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Image credit: By Unknown artist - Khalili Foundation, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=89383692
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMpVZyPDMMc&t=8s
Also watch out for how the design is transferred onto the fabric to be embroidered.
Episode 5 of the Stitch Safari Podcast - Silk: The Shimmering Mist, available to download and listen to now.
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Listen to my latest Podcast, Silk: The Shimmering Mist to learn more about silk and agriculture.
Just luxuriate in the beauty of silk.
Image Attribution: By © Moheen Reeyad, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64666772
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Here's a video Silk: The Story of India's Magic Fabric, courtesy of SilkMark, which comes in two parts, showing the entire process of sericulture, but also the different varieties of silk used in weaving as well as talking about the people who depend on this industry in India.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRIGxJGXBdM
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