Happy New Year and welcome back to Travels with Textiles, just for Friends of Haptic & Hue. Do you know anything about the person who designed the pattern on your clothing or your furnishings? Most textile designers remain anonymous and yet their work can be recognised globally. Women in Print is a new show that looks at the female designers behind one of the most famous names in pattern and print, Liberty of London.
We are also off to explore the ancient looping technique of Nälbinding, which long predates crochet and knitting, and in some parts of the world is still in use today. And we travel to Bavaria in Southern Germany to unlock the secrets of how surgeons in the 1700s learnt to stitch cleanly and quickly in the days before anaesthetic and antiseptic.
