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Fiber Nation

Interweave

Leisure

Arts

Frequency: 1 episode/34d. Total Eps: 34

Join host Allison Korleski as she brings you stories from all corners of the yarniverse. From Victorian murder mysteries to the trenches of the Western Front, from deadly dyes to futuristic fabric, each episode explores the connections between fiber, history, and humanity.

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🇨🇦 Canada - crafts
31/07/2025
#14
🇩🇪 Germany - crafts
31/07/2025
#67
🇺🇸 USA - crafts
31/07/2025
#80
🇨🇦 Canada - crafts
30/07/2025
#9
🇩🇪 Germany - crafts
30/07/2025
#62
🇺🇸 USA - crafts
30/07/2025
#73
🇨🇦 Canada - crafts
29/07/2025
#29
🇩🇪 Germany - crafts
29/07/2025
#61
🇺🇸 USA - crafts
29/07/2025
#65
🇨🇦 Canada - crafts
28/07/2025
#22

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Bonus Episode: "The Cloak of Invisibility"

vendredi 1 avril 2022 • Duration 10:30

What does it take to disappear? So-called cloaking technology is common on things like fighter jets, but recent advances at MIT have created flexible "fabric" surfaces capable of bending light. It might sound like Harry Potter hocus pocus, but it’s quite possible, in the next decade, to have clothing that makes the wearer invisible. Find Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/cloak-of-invisibility/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything Will Be Fine: Twisted Tales of Travel

Season 6 · Episode 27

jeudi 17 mars 2022 • Duration 29:05

You go on a trip, and stuff happens. You lose your luggage or miss your plane. But what if the stuff that happens is a little more epic? Like war zone, poisonous snakes, engines-falling-out-of-your-plane kind of epic? Could you roll with that? Find Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/twisted-tales-of-travel/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Manx for the Memories: Saving a Sheep

Season 4 · Episode 19

jeudi 29 avril 2021 • Duration 32:51

We travel to the Isle of Man and hear the story of one of its oldest inhabitants: the Manx Loaghtan sheep. A sheep that’s been on the brink of extinction not once or twice, but THREE times. And we’ll talk about not just how it was saved, but why some things are worth saving in the first place. Find Show Notes here. www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/next-up-in-fiber-nation-manx-for-the-memories/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lycra: The Fabric of Our Lives

Season 4 · Episode 18

jeudi 1 avril 2021 • Duration 16:20

Up to now, our daily dose of fiber has always focused on the woolly natural stuff. However, even the best diet has to succumb to a bag of Cheetos now and then. Consider this episode, about the crotch-hugging antics of spandex, as our cheat day. Show notes are here: www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/spandex-fabric-of-our-lives/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Song Quilts: Stitching Together Women's Stories

Season 4 · Episode 17

jeudi 25 février 2021 • Duration 32:00

Eliza Hardy Jones was a professional musician and an amateur quilter. Until a once-in-a-lifetime offer made her change her tune. Find out how she turns traditional folk music, sung by women, into a craft traditionally done by women. Show notes: www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/song-quilts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sheep, Wind, and Fire

Season 4 · Episode 16

jeudi 28 janvier 2021 • Duration 32:12

In today’s episode, we talk to a shearer of sheep. And while there are all kinds of cool things to learn about wool and economics and how to make a sheep sit on its butt, there’s a larger story here, about how people with the weirdest career path ever helped rescue their communities from calamity. Show notes: www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/sheep-wind-and-fire/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hemp: The Fall & Rise of a Forbidden Fiber

Season 3 · Episode 15

jeudi 17 décembre 2020 • Duration 30:39

From its roots in Asia to its importance in the colonial US, from WW2 to the war on drugs, hemp has a curious and complicated history. Plus, we talk a lot about smoking pot. Show Notes: www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/hemp-forbidden-fiber-episode-15/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Pig War

Season 3 · Episode 14

mercredi 11 novembre 2020 • Duration 13:29

In 1859, a small island off the coast of Washington state was the site of a war almost no one has heard of. It lasted 12 years, involved 5 British warships, 14 American cannons, 34 uncooperative sheep tossed into rowboats, and General George Pickett. And in the end, it sustained only a single causality: a pig. Show Notes: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/fiber-nation-the-pig-war/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Tale of Two Sweaters

Season 3 · Episode 13

vendredi 16 octobre 2020 • Duration 29:14

In today's episode, we hear a tale of two radically different sweaters. But while we begin by exploring the world of luxury knitwear, we end up discovering something completely different…and completely new. Read the show notes: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/tale-two-sweaters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fiber Nation wants to give you yarn, again!

Season 3

mercredi 7 octobre 2020 • Duration 01:25

Did you know Oct 10 is I Love Yarn Day? Neither did we. but no matter. Listen to hear how you can win a box of fluffy goodness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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