Haptic & Hue

The long arc of human history has been accompanied since the 1400s one way or another by lace. The Italians call this, d... Read more

The Italian Renaissance produced glorious masterpieces by artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo who are justl... Read more

In 18th century London, the secret of your birth could literally hang by a thread. If your mother took you to the Foundl... Read more

Over the past months, we have watched in horror as nearly ten million people have fled their homes in Ukraine to escape ... Read more

Welcome to the fourth season of Haptic and Hue’s Tales of Textiles. This season is called Threads of Survival and the ei... Read more

Can a nation simply forget an astonishing operation in which its women and children made nearly half a million quilts to... Read more

Samplers tell stories in stitch, but whose tale are they telling? Perhaps the story of a young woman describing her fami... Read more

There’s a way of producing cloth that has been called 200 years of secrecy and lies. It has played a central role in war... Read more

How do textiles shape a city, and how, in turn, does a city and its people shape and change the world of textiles? This ... Read more

African Wax Cloth is having its moment in the sun and it seems to be everywhere, from the catwalks of Paris and New York... Read more