Latest Textile Podcast Episodes
Can we trust textile factory audits in China?
Ecotextile Talks - July 01, 2024 23:01 - 25 minutesFresh from his high-profile appearance at a recent US Congressional-Executive Commission on China hearing, Scott Nova, Executive Director of the Workers Rights Consortium in Washington DC, gave Philip Berman a hard-hitting interview questioning the reliability of social compliance audits in Chi...
Jack Roberts: Freehand Machine Embroidery Fine Artist
Stitchery Stories - June 27, 2024 12:19 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsDr. Jack Roberts, also known as JPR Stitch, is a fine artist specializing in freehand machine embroidery, creating stunning abstract shapes from dense, intricate webs of stitches. His art reflects the calmness and tranquility he experiences while stitching, making sewing his form of meditation...
Fashioning Identity
BFC Fashion Forum - June 11, 2024 12:57 - 41 minutesFor episode four, photographer Campbell Addy is joined by designer Tolu Coker, and model James Corbin to discuss the importance of telling the stories of cultural identity within fashion and exploring their individuality through shared cultural experiences. The conversation focuses on the pressu...
Ernest Scheyder on lithium, mining, and the politics behind going green.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - June 10, 2024 05:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsErnest Scheyder is an author and senior correspondent for Reuters. His new book, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives, looks at the impact of the green transition in the US – and, more particularly, the tensions over the increasing need to mine for metals to d...
America’s Cotton Feed Sacks: And How They Changed The World
Haptic & Hue - June 06, 2024 03:30 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe American cotton feed sack is the stuff of legend. From the 1850s onwards it was skilfully repurposed by women across America into all kinds of garments and household goods. By the late 1930s when it became highly patterned, it's estimated that more than 3 million Americans were wearing ...
Episode 67 – Sustainability: Water Reuse and Recycling
Linen, Uniform & Facility Services Podcast - Interviews & Insights by TRSA - May 31, 2024 21:54 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsJohn Shaffer, the CEO and principal chemist for EEC Environmental, shares his thoughts on the sustainability efforts the linen, uniform and facility services industry has made when it comes to water reuse and water recycling. For more information on this topic, contact [email protected].
Alison Holt: Freehand Machine Embroidery Landscapes
Stitchery Stories - May 25, 2024 15:22 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsAlison Holt is a contemporary textile artist, teacher and author who combines silk painting and freehand machine embroidery to create beautiful landscapes and glimpses of the natural world. Alison shares how her career and art continues to evolve, as she looks for new challenges. Following ne...
Adi Toch on why she buries copper.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - May 23, 2024 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAdi Toch is one of the world’s most fascinating metal artists, who over the years has buried her pieces for months on end before digging them up, and even made them react to sound. She has also taken part in collaborations with furniture makers and glass artists. Adi has work in the permanent ...
Navigating Change
BFC Fashion Forum - May 14, 2024 13:30 - 38 minutesFor episode three, Vogue Business Executive European Editor, Kirsty McGregor is joined by CEO and Co-Founder of Tomorrow, Stefano Martinetto, and Founder and Creative Director of MACHINE-A, Stavros Karelis to discuss the ongoing cultural and socio-economic implications of Brexit on the British f...
Human Nature's Jonathan Smales on mining the Anthropocene, and building in timber and Hempcrete at The Phoenix.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - May 14, 2024 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJonathan Smales is a housing developer like few others. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Human Nature, whose new project, The Phoenix, on the outskirts of Lewes, East Sussex in the UK, has just won planning permission. What makes the development different? The Phoenix will contai...
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP: Dr. Jennifer Hinton Thinks Not-for-Profit Business Models Can Help Address The Problems of Fast Fashion.
Big Closets Small Planet - May 08, 2024 08:12 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIs our current for-profit economic model a root cause of many of today's sustainability challenges generally, and specifically in apparel and fashion? Dr. Jennifer Hinton, author and Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at University of Lund, has concluded so....
Bert Frank's Adam Yeats on manufacturing in post-Brexit Britain.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - May 07, 2024 06:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsAdam Yeats is co-founder and managing director of Bert Frank, one of the UK’s leading lighting companies. Yeats started the brand with designer, Robbie Llewellyn, in 2013. Since then it has gone from strength to strength, opening a showroom in London’s Clerkenwell in 2019, exhibiting at home and...
Caroline Hyde-Brown : Weaving Plant Material Into Textile Art
Stitchery Stories - May 02, 2024 14:18 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsCaroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career. Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. Combined with her purposeful art practice experienc...
Australia’s Convict Quilt: Something to be Proud Of
Haptic & Hue - May 02, 2024 03:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsAn extraordinary quilt handstitched by convict women on board ship as they were transported from Britain to Australia in 1841 has just gone on display in a new exhibition at Australia’s National Gallery. Many of those who made the quilt were illiterate and led tough and impoverished lives. And ...
Episode 66 – What’s at Stake in 2024?
Linen, Uniform & Facility Services Podcast - Interviews & Insights by TRSA - April 30, 2024 22:27 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBob Cusack, the editor in chief of The Hill newspaper, gives an update on the current political climate in Washington, DC. During his keynote speech at TRSA’s recently completed 14th Annual Legislative Conference and Industry Awards Dinner, Cusack discusses the key issues in the 2024 president...
Ptolemy Mann on colour, weaving, and painting.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - April 30, 2024 03:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsPtolemy Mann is a British artist who came to widespread attention with her woven textile pieces, often stretched across a frame and notable for her extraordinary use of colour. More recently, her practice shifted and she has turned to painting on paper with fascinating – and inevitably colourf...
S6 E115: Jenni Grover, Wellness Coach
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - April 26, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! Hello and welcome everyone! If you are new, I am Stephanie and this podcast is a long conversational format with alternating solo and guest episodes. There is a chit chat segment that is after the guest segment where I chit and chat about everything and nothing in my w...
How to come together to decarbonise with Cascale and 'About You'
Ecotextile Talks - April 16, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutesIn the final edition of our four-part podcast series, produced in partnership with Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, we discuss the need for collective action and pre competitive collaboration to deliver real impact. Regular host Philip Berman is joined by Joyce Tsoi, senior...
Aims - Indy Bindy Fabrics
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - April 12, 2024 05:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! S6 Ep 114 Guests segment: Aims, Indy Bindy Fabrics https://www.indybindy.com.au/shop Aims is the owner of Indy Bindy Fabrics, an independent online fabric shop based in Australia. She works with independent fabric artists and designers. A lot of these fabric artists a...
Stitching Tomorrow
BFC Fashion Forum - April 09, 2024 13:30 - 30 minutesIn this episode designer Jawara Alleyne and writer and cultural communications thought leader Yasmin Jones-Henry discuss how designers can utilise indigenous knowledge and traditions to create truly sustainable brands. Delving into their Caribbean heritage, Jawara and Yasmin highlight how many i...
Taking the carbon out of clothing, with Cascale
Ecotextile Talks - April 09, 2024 05:00 - 30 minutesWe sit down with Sean Cady, vice president of global sustainability, responsibility and trade for VF Corporation and also elected board director for Cascale, and Andrew Martin, executive vice president of Cascale for our latest podcast on decarbonising the fashion supply chain. This third of a...
The Forgotten Medieval Craft of Cloth Staining
Haptic & Hue - April 04, 2024 04:17 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsFrom the grandest palace to the poorest cottage, so-called ‘stained’ cloths brought colour and joy to everyday life in England for hundreds of years. These specially painted and stamped fabrics formed the backdrop to funerals, ceremonies, processions, masques, and tournaments that required ...
Are you ready for the new EU laws on sustainability?
Ecotextile Talks - April 02, 2024 15:41 - 37 minutesIn the second of a four part podcast series in partnership with Cascale, formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, we look at the potential impact on the textile industry of revolutionary new EU laws on green claims and eco-design. Regular host Philip Berman is joined by Elisabeth ...
Measuring for impact, with Cascale
Ecotextile Talks - March 26, 2024 06:00 - 34 minutesWelcome to a new four part podcast series in partnership with Cascale, formerly known as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, about the big challenges facing the industry, and Cascale's role in co-creating solutions at scale. The first episode is about Measuring for Impact with host Philip Berm...
S6 E113: Sewing Fashion and Quilting Trends 2024
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - March 23, 2024 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! The main topic for today’s episode is “Sewing Fashion and Quilting trends of 2024”. It was fun to research this topic and to present my thoughts on them as well as resources for you to check out to make some trendy fashion including patterns, fabrics notions and more. ...
What Does It Mean To Be a Designer Today?
BFC Fashion Forum - March 12, 2024 14:53 - 24 minutesKicking off Season 5 of the British Fashion Council's Fashion Forum Podcast, journalist and writer Lauren Cochrane talks to London based designer and BFC NEWGEN alumni Martine Rose in ‘What Does It Mean To Be a Designer Today?’. About Martine: Awarded BFC NEWGEN in 2014 and the recipient of ...
S6E112: Christa Watson, Christa Quilts
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - March 08, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! Christa Watson is back to chat with us about none other than machine quilting, her new Dazzle Dots fabrics with Benartex, Sewing table with Arrow, quilting notions sold in quilt shops and her new book with C&T Publishing. Links: https://christaquilts.com/ Christa's Boo...
Invisible Hands: Tapestry Weavers and Artists
Haptic & Hue - March 07, 2024 04:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsGreat tapestries have been used to decorate and embellish homes and palaces for centuries, and yet the hands that created these works remain almost completely forgotten. Art institutions treasure their ancient tapestries woven painstakingly over many months, and even years and know almost every...
Episode 65 – Private Equity’s Impact on Healthcare
Linen, Uniform & Facility Services Podcast - Interviews & Insights by TRSA - March 01, 2024 00:25 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSeveral influential voices from the financial sector discuss the impact of private-equity investments on the linen, uniform and facility services industry over the past decade and discuss the implications for the future of companies serving the acute and nonacute healthcare sectors. Recorded li...
Ep 2: Cash for Climate Solutions - figuring out fashion’s CO2 emissions
Ecotextile Talks - February 29, 2024 00:00 - 31 minutesIn the second episode of this podcast series, produced in partnership with the Apparel Impact Institute about its Climate Solutions Portfolio (CSP), we take a look at the tool it's built to help decide who should get the funding, and what a winning application looks like. As a quick re-cap, t...
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