Dr Isabella Rosner of HistoricEmbroidery has been broadcasting her Sew What podcast that celebrates historic needlework and those who stitched it for over three seasons, now releasing standalone episodes. This consummate needlework expert explores all types of needlecraft from around the world and across continents including embroidery, knitting, weaving, nålbinding, quilting, lacemaking, and everything in between, interviewing leading textile artists, scholars, and curators.
The episode includes these things!
Image of the Chiusi Skyphos taken from Adolf Furtwangler and Karl Reichhold’s Griechische Vasenmalerei
Blue Kerchief from Tutankhamun’s Embalming Cache, c. 1336-1327 BC, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mended trousers, 1880s, Norfolk Museums Service
Mended trousers, 1880s, Norfolk Museums Service
Mended trousers, 1880s, Norfolk Museums Service
Lorina Bulwer, sampler, 1906-1907, Norfolk Museums Service
Eugenia Ligon, embroidered garment, circa 1949, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Elizabeth Parker, sampler, circa 1830, Victoria and Albert Museum
Mary, Queen of Scots and Bess of Hardwick, The Marian Hanging, circa 1570-1585, Victoria and Albert Museum
Likely Susanna Perwich, embroidered cabinet, circa 1645-1655, LACMA
Cato de Keijzer, pronkrol (long sampler), 1909, Textile Research Centre
