The Culture of Cloth
Clothing is never just clothing. Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette tells a story about power, politics, and whose story got told. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story, starting with the cloth itself and following it wherever it leads. It looks at the construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. Hosted by Veronica Tucker.
Episodes
A Compass, Not a Photocopier: Trend Forecasting, AI and Why Origin Matters with Tully Walter
Tully Walter is a Strategic Futures Director at Soon Futures and this is one of the most substantial conversations I've had on the show.We get into what trend forecasting actually is (observed, invented, or accelerated) and how the answer changes depending on who's paying. We talk about cultural appropriation and why origin gives a trend its meaning, what happens when that context gets s
The First Makers: Celtic & European
Every single one of these goddesses survived, but none of them survived intact.In this episode I trace the weaving goddesses of Celtic and European mythology (Brigid, Arianrhod, Frigg, and Holda) and the pattern running through all of them. They were rewritten, renamed, absorbed into new religions, turned into fairy tales, reduced to saints. Brigid survived by becoming a saint. Holda survived by b
The First Makers: Ancient Mediterranean & Near East
While researching the Goddess Project, I came across something that stopped me completely. Every culture, independently and without contact with each other, created a goddess who presided over weaving. Not because ideas travelled along trade routes, but separately. Across thousands of years and thousands of kilometres.In this episode I walk through the oldest part of that record, from Uttu, the Su
The Dictionary Was Named After a Woman Weaver
There's a word you use every single day that used to mean woven fabric. And the most authoritative dictionary in the English language is named, etymologically, after a medieval woman weaver.In this episode we follow the thread from Old English occupational suffixes through spinster, webster, and the World Wide Web, to Noah Webster, the Hattori clan, and the myth of Arachne. Women's texti
The Most Powerful Colour in History Smelled of Garlic
The most coveted colour in the ancient world came from a sea snail that smelled of garlic and cost more than gold. Tyrian purple built empires, wrote laws, and ended careers and when Constantinople fell in 1453, the knowledge of how to make it disappeared almost entirely.In this episode we trace the colour from the Phoenician city of Tyre to the courts of Rome and Byzantium, through the chemistry
Women Invented Binary Code
Women invented binary code. They ran it by hand across thousands of threads, encoded it into the punched cards that built the first computer and knitted it through enemy checkpoints during wartime. We didn't call it code because we didn't call anything women did by its right name. This is the story of fabric as information technology and the consistent pattern of who builds the foundatio
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