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  • Claire-Louise Hardie / The Thrifty Stitcher: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 54

    Today’s episode is more in the summer of stitch series, this time with a very different kind of maker. Claire-Louise Hardie is a costumier and…

  • Mary Linwood events

    Mary Linwood events

    Save the dates for Mary Linwood related events in Leicester, September 2025 – January 2026. This is advance notice of in-person events related to Mary…

  • Moving The Needle

    Moving The Needle

    The under-appreciated originality of Mary Linwood (1755-1845) This essay is inspired by the prompt of Originality, posed by Beth Kempton on Substack for the Summer…

  • Jennifer Collier; Making Meaning Podcast Episode 53

    Continuing with the summer of stitch theme, in this podcast episode I am talking to the brilliant maker Jennifer Collier, who makes amazing objects in…