by Cathy Jack Coupland | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Nov 24, 2020 | Resources
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. Professor Bloch encompasses the unusual travails this...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Aug 28, 2020 | Resources
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...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Aug 26, 2020 | Resources
Informative and scholarly writing combine to produce an easy-to-read, enjoyable journey looking at the role women’s work played in creating and shaping civilisations. Barber explains why spinning and cloth-making became almost the sole domain of women and uses a...
by Cathy Jack Coupland | Aug 20, 2020 | Podcast Episodes
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...
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