Latest Textile Podcast Episodes
Belle Brunner: Seams Sew Me | Chit Chat: Tips for Pattern Matching Seams
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - February 23, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! Patreon.com/makeanddecorate Patreon has recently added a free membership feature available where you can join in chats with me and everyone in the group. Paid subscribers receive a new bonus podcast episode every month. Guest Segment: Belle Brunner with Seams Sew Me...
Ep 1: Cash for climate solutions, with the Apparel Impact Institute
Ecotextile Talks - February 22, 2024 06:00 - 29 minutesIn partnership with the Apparel Impact Institute, Philip Berman takes an in-depth look at its new The Climate Solutions Portfolio which aims to find, feature and fund any initiative with the potential to reduce energy use and/or greenhouse gas emissions at scale in the industry. And it has up...
TRAIL: How to win cash for climate solutions
Ecotextile Talks - February 21, 2024 16:42 - 1 minuteIn partnership with the Apparel Impact Institute, host Philip Berman takes an in-depth look at its new The Climate Solutions Portfolio which aims to find, feature and fund any initiative with the potential to reduce energy use and/or greenhouse gas emissions at scale in the industry. And it h...
Fairphone's Bas van Abel on repair, longevity, and conflict minerals.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - February 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsBas van Abel founded Fairphone in 2013. The company attempts to transform the way our smartphones are manufactured, by reducing e-waste, sourcing conflict-free minerals, and improving working conditions in its supply chain. It creates a product consumers are encouraged to keep longer and which, ...
John Tuomey on his childhood, becoming an architect, and his beautiful new memoir.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - February 12, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThere have been over 100 episodes of Material Matters but, for listeners who might be new to all this, the idea is that I speak to a designer, maker, artist, or architect about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discover how it changed their lives and careers. ...
John Tuomey on his childhood and becoming an architect.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - February 12, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThere have been over 100 episodes of Material Matters but, for listeners who might be new to all this, the idea is that I speak to a designer, maker, artist, or architect about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discover how it changed their lives and careers. ...
The Rotary Cutter
Running Stitch - A QSOS Podcast - February 08, 2024 20:05 - 28 minutesOther than the sewing machine, what tool has been the biggest innovation in quiltmaking? Yes, that’s right: in this episode of Running Stitch, we’re talking all about the rotary cutter. Our guest is Kristin Barrus, a PhD candidate at University of Leicester and a quiltmaker. Kristin’s work exp...
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on making ethical leather.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - February 05, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSara Grady and Alice Robinson co-founded British Pasture Leather in 2020. The duo aim in their own words ‘to link leather with exemplary farming and, in doing so, to redefine leather as an agricultural product’. All of which means creating a new network of systems within the industry. Essentiall...
Sara Grady and Alice Robinson on British Pasture Leather.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - February 05, 2024 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsSara Grady and Alice Robinson co-founded British Pasture Leather in 2020. The duo aim in their own words ‘to link leather with exemplary farming and, in doing so, to redefine leather as an agricultural product’. All of which means creating a new network of systems within the industry. Essentiall...
The Garment That Sweeps Through History: The Everlasting Cloak
Haptic & Hue - February 01, 2024 04:30 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThere’s a piece of clothing that has a good claim to being a universal garment. It is thousands of years old and yet it featured on the catwalks last year. It’s stylish and at the same time the humblest and simplest of garments. It has been worn and enjoyed by rich and poor alike. It has been re...
Electric Quilt
Running Stitch - A QSOS Podcast - January 29, 2024 15:22 - 44 minutesWe’re back with our second episode of Season 4! We’re continuing our focus on the intersection of technology and quiltmaking, but this time, we’re going digital. We’re exploring the backstory and invention of Electric Quilt, the leading quilt design software that's been changing how quilters cre...
Florian Gadsby on clay and becoming a potter.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - January 29, 2024 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsFlorian Gadsby is a bit of a phenomenon. The ceramicist currently has a new show at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and has also published a memoir, By My Hands, that charts his formative years with clay, including apprenticeships in the UK and, most intriguingly, Japan. Essentially, it unpicks ...
Christien Meinderstma on wool (and linoleum).
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - January 22, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsChristien Meinderstma is a Dutch designer who has a fascination with materials. She currently has an installation at the V&A, entitled Re-forming Waste, which shows new work based around her interest in linoleum, as well as technological advances with the material she has described as her first ...
Christien Meindertsma on wool (and linoleum).
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - January 22, 2024 06:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsChristien Meindertsma is a Dutch designer who has a fascination with materials. She currently has an installation at the V&A, entitled Re-forming Waste, which shows new work based around her interest in linoleum, as well as technological advances with the material she has described as her first ...
The Industrial Revolution
Running Stitch - A QSOS Podcast - January 16, 2024 03:18 - 29 minutesWe’re kicking off a new season of Running Stitch, focused on the intersections of technology and quiltmaking. But it’s not just about computers and digital sewing machines! In this episode we’re going back to the roots of quilt making to discover how our nostalgic ideas about quiltmaking as a pr...
Ukraine's Revolutionary Act of Embroidery: How Identity Survives in Stitches
Haptic & Hue - January 04, 2024 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsAs the war in the Ukraine brutally shows, few people have had as hard a struggle down the centuries to maintain their identity as Ukrainians. For hundreds of years, they have been occupied and subjugated by one power after another, the Ottomans, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Poland, the N...
Queuing & Self checkouts in RETAIL
Eyes on the Brands - December 28, 2023 18:02 - 28 minutesHave we all become impatient shoppers or do we enjoy scanning our new items at self checkouts .. which one is it ? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eyesonthebrands/message
Simone Brewster on 2023, her breakthrough year.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - December 27, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThis special festive episode is slightly different because, as we come to the end of 2023, we thought it would be interesting to talk to someone who has had a breakthrough year. And we couldn’t think of anyone that description fits better than UK-based designer, Simone Brewster. In June, Simon...
End of The Year Reflections
Design and Shine - December 25, 2023 21:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsAs 2023 comes to a close, I reflect back on the huge changes that I made in my business this year in this final podcast episode before I take an extended summer break at the beach with my family and new puppy. I share my process of looking back to assess my goals, how I question my progress, a...
O.G Influencers, staying on top
Eyes on the Brands - December 21, 2023 18:00 - 32 minutesIn todays day and age, anyone can become an influencer and we've even seen some become signed to agencies. However, for those that paved the way, where are they and how are they keeping up with the times --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eyesonthebrands/message
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - December 20, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJeremy Maxwell Wintrebert is a Paris-based designer, maker, and artist, obsessed with blown glass. In an eclectic career, that has seen him travelling through the USA and Europe, before settling in France in 2007, he has shown work at the V&A, Vessel Gallery in London, and Palais de Tokyo among ...
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert on hot glass.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - December 20, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsJeremy Maxwell Wintrebert is a Paris-based designer, maker, and artist, obsessed with blown glass. In an eclectic career, that has seen him travelling through the USA and Europe, before settling in France in 2007, he has shown work at the V&A, Vessel Gallery in London, and Palais de Tokyo among ...
Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business
Stitchery Stories - December 12, 2023 16:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 63 ratingsHannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art. In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Hannah shares her story and we dive into what s...
Surviving To Thriving As An Independent Creative
Design and Shine - December 12, 2023 03:25 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWhen I left full-time employment as a surface pattern designer, I could not understand why I found it so incredibly difficult to design with the same confidence and ease as I did for my clients... Despite years of design experience and confidence working to a design brief, when I decided to w...
Naomi Fata, Love Stitches: Sewing, Alterations and Slip Covers
Make and Decorate with Stephanie: Sew, Quilt, Knit & Home Decor - December 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSend me a Text Message! Welcome to the Make and Decorate Podcast, for makers who love to sew, quilt, knit and decorate....and do all the crafts! Today's guest is Naomi Fata from Love Stitches by Naomi at naomifata.net. Naomi does bridal alterations and makes custom slip covers for upholstery f...
Threaded Together: How the US Climate Smart Cotton program is helping to reduce the carbon footprint of textiles
Ecotextile Talks - December 07, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutesTo coincide with the week of World Soil Day 2023, our third and final episode of our Threaded Together: cotton and sustainability podcast series, sponsored by Cotton Incorporated, looks at the US Climate Smart Cotton Program- a bold, new and exciting initiative in the US, which aims to measure...
The Point of The Needle - How the Ancient Craft of Stitching Shapes Us
Haptic & Hue - December 07, 2023 04:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe needle and thread have been humanity’s constant companions for tens of thousands of years: far longer than the dog, the sword, or the wheel, and much longer than reading and writing. Down the centuries the needle has rendered us incredible service and we have come to depend on it. And yet th...
Threaded Together: How best to measure cotton’s environmental impact
Ecotextile Talks - November 30, 2023 06:00 - 52 minutesIn the second of this three-part podcast series: 'Threaded Together' about cotton sustainability, host Philip Berman talks to Dr Jesse Daystar, from Cotton Incorporated and Joel Mertens from the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, about the best way(s) to measure sustainability in the cotton industry...
Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.
Material Matters with Grant Gibson - November 28, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsNeil Thomas is the founder and director of Atelier One, one of the most creative engineering practices in the UK. The firm has worked on building projects such as Singapore Arts Centre, Federation Square in Australia, and Baltic in Gateshead, as well as with a hugely impressive roster of artists...
How Your Hidden Limiting Beliefs May Be Sabotaging Your Creative Success
Design and Shine - November 28, 2023 04:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsRecently, my family and I invited a new member into the family - a PUPPY!!! His name is Juno. And while it's been a LOT of fun these last few weeks getting to know him, it hasn't been as much fun training him not to wee in the house! 😅 But it has been interesting to watch him learn. ...
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