Thread Cult

Artist and teacher Rebecca Ringquist pulls embroidery out of its classic confines, using her needle and floss to tell mo... Read more

This episode, Christine catches up with Kate Sekules, founder of Refashioner, a new website that acts as a curated consi... Read more

Christine chats with renowned couture sewing expert Susan Khalje about sewing women’s dreams (wedding dresses!), fabric ... Read more

Producing clothing and other sewn goods locally and sustainaly is no easy task, particularly in our global age. Yet ther... Read more

History, home ec, and fashion converge in this episode, an interview with historian Linda Przybyszewski (Professor Pski ... Read more

In this season of gift giving, Christine teams up with Oona, of Oonaballoona.com, to try and answer an elusive question:... Read more

Since the industrial revolution, fashion has been inextricably linked with technology. From the invention of the sewing ... Read more

How do you come to know someone if all you have is the evidence of their clothes? This is the mystery author Jessamyn Ha... Read more

Small crafts have become big business, with the likes of West Elm and Anthropologie trolling booths at the Renegade Craf... Read more

The New York Times has called her the artisanal dyer of the fashion world, but Audrey Louise Reynolds, a Brooklyn-based ... Read more

By now, most people recognize the environmental and health benefits of eating natural, organic, and sustainably-raised f... Read more

If you sew, or aspire to sew, you surely have questions about that most important piece of hardware—the sewing machine. ... Read more

Have you ever daydreamed of ditching your 9 to 5, stretching your creative muscles, and sewing fulltime? Nayantara Baner... Read more

A current exhibit at the Museum at FIT explores the connection between haute couture and the folk stories of the Brother... Read more

A new exhibit at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores how high fashion influenced bereavemen... Read more

If you love beautiful fabrics, don't miss this episode! Christine takes Thread Cult on the road to interview Bethanne Kn... Read more

Textile designer Lotta Jansdotter is the epitome of Scandinavian cool, even when she's designing in her Brooklyn studio.... Read more

Making perfect-fitting clothes is one of the toughest sewing skills to master. In this episode, couture designer and sew... Read more

This episode, Christine chats with Stephen Fraser, co-founder of the digital fabric printing company Spoonflower, which ... Read more

Sometimes home is the best place for great ideas to thrive. Fifteen years ago, Natalie Chanin discovered just this when ... Read more