Cloth Cultures with Amber Butchart

By: Amber Butchart
  • Summary

  • Welcome back to the Cloth Cultures podcast series. For season 3, Amber Butchart speaks to some of the artists and curators who are exhibiting at the British Textile Biennial throughout October this year, 2023. Tune in to hear discussions focussing on some of the most pressing issues facing the textile industries, and its history and legacy today, from textile waste imperialism to regenerative fashion, and even the links between the depiction of witchcraft and weaving.

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    Sep 14 2021

    Throughout the Cloth Cultures podcasts and associated exhibition, fashion historian Amber Butchart explores movement, migration and making through cloth, speaking to artists, historians, makers, and scientists to shed light on our textile history. 


    Focussing on four fabrics – silk, linen, wool and cotton - Amber investigates the global strands of local stories that link Lancashire, at the heart of the textile industry in Britain, to areas throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.


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    1 min
  • Ep 1: Silk 1 with Rachel Midgley and Sarah Cheang
    Sep 14 2021

    Throughout the Cloth Cultures podcasts and associated exhibition, fashion historian Amber Butchart explores movement, migration and making through cloth, speaking to artists, historians, makers, and scientists to shed light on our textile history.


    Featuring Rachel Midgeley, Curator at The Gawthorpe Textile Collection and Design Historian Sarah Cheang shedding light on our textile history looking through the collection of pieces of silk, in particular the Chinese section of the collection which is the second biggest part containing around 400 pieces.


    Focussing on four fabrics – silk, linen, wool and cotton - Amber investigates the global strands of local stories that link Lancashire, at the heart of the textile industry in Britain, to areas throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.


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    36 mins
  • Ep 2: Silk 2 with Arathi Prasad and Paul Blanc
    Sep 14 2021

    Throughout the Cloth Cultures podcasts and associated exhibition, fashion historian Amber Butchart explores movement, migration and making through cloth, speaking to artists, historians, makers, and scientists to shed light on our textile history.


    Featuring Biologist and writer Arathi Prasad and Physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Paul Blanc.


    Focussing on four fabrics – silk, linen, wool and cotton - Amber investigates the global strands of local stories that link Lancashire, at the heart of the textile industry in Britain, to areas throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.


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    34 mins

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