Episode 55 is more of the summer of stitch series, this time with the brilliant Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework curator, podcaster and all round historic embroidery enthusiast. She has been part of the Mary Linwood fan club for years and we had a wonderful time talking about all the complexities of Linwood’s career and making practice, and reflecting on her legacy and why she’s been so ignored in the last hundred and fifty years.
If you want to go back in time, you can also listen to me on Isabella’s podcast from 2021 too – there’s a link below.
Dr Isabella Rosner is the curator of textiles and contextual studies lecturer at the Royal School of Needlework. She is a 2023 BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker and author of Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration (Common Threads Press). Isabella also hosts the Sew What? podcast about historical needlework and those who stitched it.
Links
Ruth on Sew What? Podcast from 2021
Some Mary Linwood images
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Download the full transcript here
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