Welcome to this month's Travels with Textiles, the podcast for Friends of Haptic & Hue, with Jo Andrews and Bill Taylor. In this episode, we explore textiles of disaster and textiles of memory, especially those memories of textures from your childhood. We hear from listeners who told us more about the incredible history of needles, including the Japanese custom of laying worn and broken needles to rest in something soft. We preview next month's podcast, review the book of the month which is about fabric diaries, and introduce a special interview just for Friends with the curator of the first retrospective exhibition about the Anglo-Trinidadian textile designer Althea McNish. Find out more in the February edition of Travels with Textiles and check out the webpage for pictures and links
