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Sew What?

Isabella Rosner

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History

Frequency: 1 episode/23d. Total Eps: 103

A podcast all about historic needlework and those who stitched it, hosted by your local historic needlework expert, Isabella Rosner.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Visual Arts
06/10/2026
#80
🇺🇸 USA - Visual Arts
06/10/2026
#62
🇨🇦 Canada - Visual Arts
05/10/2026
#48
🇺🇸 USA - Visual Arts
05/10/2026
#31
🇨🇦 Canada - Visual Arts
04/10/2026
#21
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Visual Arts
04/10/2026
#72
🇺🇸 USA - Visual Arts
04/10/2026
#31
🇺🇸 USA - Visual Arts
03/10/2026
#29
🇺🇸 USA - Visual Arts
02/10/2026
#48
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Visual Arts
30/09/2026
#95

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https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/
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The American Folk Art Museum's New Schoolgirl Art Exhibition!: An Interview with Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp

Season 3 · Episode 40

Friday, October 2, 2026 • Duration 56:00

In this episode Isabella interviews Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp, co-curators of the upcoming exhibition Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art at the American Folk Art Museum. The three talk about the exhibition, the pieces within it, and how themes of identity, belonging, and place emerge in schoolgirl needlework and other art forms. The exhibition opens on 9 October 2026.

You can find out more about the exhibition here: https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/locating-girlhood/. You can buy the accompanying book here: https://shop.folkartmuseum.org/locating-girlhood-place-and-identity-in-early-amer.html.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

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Dress, Textiles, and Needlework of the Irish Poor: An Interview with Dr Eliza McKee

Season 3 · Episode 39

Friday, August 21, 2026 • Duration 01:01:53

In this episode Isabella interviews Dr Eliza McKee, Irish dress and social historian. The two talk about the dress, textiles, and needlework of the Irish poor. You can find Eliza on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/irishdresshistorian/.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

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John Craske, Fisherman Turned Embroiderer: An Interview with Lisa Little and Lesley Lougher

Season 4 · Episode 38

Friday, August 7, 2026 • Duration 54:29

In this episode Isabella interviews Lisa Little, curator of Sheringham Museum at the Mo, and Lesley Lougher, volunteer and former trustee of Sheringham Museum at the Mo, about John Craske (1881-1943). John Craske was a Norfolk fisherman who took to painting and embroidery after falling ill. The trio talk about how Craske came to embroider, the style and content of his stitching, and how a group of women put his work on the map.

You can learn more about the museum here: https://www.sheringhammuseum.co.uk/. You can buy Lesley Lougher and Jan Hillier's book about John Craske here: https://www.sheringhammuseum.co.uk/product/john-craske-fisherman-painter-in-wools/. You can learn more about the Murmuration Tapestry here: https://nearlywildweaving.wordpress.com/the-murmuration-collaboration/.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

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The History and Use of Tatting: An Interview with Dr Brenda Rewhorn

Season 4 · Episode 37

Friday, June 26, 2026 • Duration 44:55

In this episode Isabella interviews Dr Brenda Rewhorn, the chairman of the Ring of Tatters and a maker of all sorts of textiles who did her PhD on the history of tatting. The two talk about the development of tatting, the different types of tatting that are practiced, the tools involved in tatting production, and modern day uses of it. You can join the Ring of Tatters here: https://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

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Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes: An Interview with Dr Eleanor Houghton

Season 4 · Episode 36

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 • Duration 46:48

In this episode, Isabella interviews Dr Eleanor Houghton about her new book Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes, published by Bloomsbury.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can buy Charlotte Brontë's Life Through Clothes here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/charlotte-bront%C3%ABs-life-through-clothes-9781350514089/. You can find Eleanor on her website here: https://www.eleanorhoughton.com/ and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/eleanorhoughtonhistorian/.

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Sew What? Goes to India, Part 1: Chanakya International and Chanakya School of Craft

Season 4 · Episode 34

Friday, March 27, 2026 • Duration 44:09

In the first part of this two-part episode about needlework in India, Isabella interviews the staff at Chanakya, based in Mumbai.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can find out more about Chanakya International here: https://chanakya.in/ and the Chanakya School of Craft here: https://chanakya.school/index.php. You can also find them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/chanakya.in/ and https://www.instagram.com/chanakya.school/.

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Sew What? Goes to India, Part 2: Shrujan and Shrujan LLDC

Season 4 · Episode 35

Friday, March 27, 2026 • Duration 01:10:27

In the second part of this two-part episode about needlework in India, Isabella interviews the staff at Shrujan and Shrujan LLDC, based in Bhuj.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can find out more about Shrujan here: https://shrujan.com/ and Shrujan LLDC here: https://shrujanlldc.org/. You can also find them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shrujanindia/ and https://www.instagram.com/lldcshrujan/.

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Art X Fashion: An Interview with Dr Elizabeth Way

Season 4 · Episode 33

Monday, March 23, 2026 • Duration 42:18

In this episode, Isabella interviews Dr Elizabeth Way about her exhibition Art X Fashion, on display at the Museum at FIT until 19 April 2026.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can find out more about Art X Fashion at https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/exhibitions/art-fashion/index.php and more about the Museum at FIT at https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/.

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Collecting Samplers: An Interview with Alexandra Peters

Season 4 · Episode 32

Friday, February 27, 2026 • Duration 55:24

In this episode, Isabella interviews Alexandra Peters about her sampler collection and the importance of studying samplers.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

Alexandra's website is https://www.alexandralallypeters.com/. You can learn about her upcoming talks at Norwalk Historical Society and Suffield Historical Society here: https://www.alexandralallypeters.com/talks. Alexandra also mentions https://www.thesamplerguild.co.uk/, http://www.samplerconsortiuminternational.org, and antiquesamplers.com.

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Textile Conservation and Marie Antoinette Style: An Interview with Hannah Sutherland

Season 4 · Episode 31

Thursday, December 11, 2025 • Duration 57:55

In this episode, Isabella interviews Hannah Sutherland, ACR, Senior Textile Conservator at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The two discuss what is involved in conservation, knitted masterpieces, and the exhibition Marie Antoinette Style.

Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.

You can find Hannah on Instagram at Instagram.com/hannahjoycetextiles. You can find her Textile History article at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00404969.2025.2505489.

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Sew What? – Details, episodes & analysis

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