Season 2 Episode 3: Textile Stories
Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Natalie LoVetri
With Guests Dina Kalman Spoerl, Brandi Goddard, and Lucie Heins
For this episode of Victorian Samplings, we've stitched together a trio of conversations about textiles. Learn about about the history of spinning wheels, the nineteenth-century craze for Crazy Quilts, and how fabric scraps feature in a woman's very detailed record of her life.
Transcript
Read a complete transcript of the episode here!
Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.
References & Resources
Read “This Blue Is the One She Wore Last” by Dina Kalman Spoerl.
Learn more about the Naper Settlement here.
See Hannah Ditzler Alspaugh’s clothing scrapbook, discussed by Dina.
Click here for more about Brandi Goddard.
Explore the material culture and folkloric material that inspired Brandi’s research here.
Check out a spinning wheel’s digital record on the Canadian Museum of Natural History website.
Find out more about Lucie Heins’ research and her new quilting book here.
Take a closer look at crazy quilts on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Check out the following book recommendations from Lucie Heins: The Crazy Quilt Handbook, Crazy Quilts: History - Techniques - Embroidery Motifs, An Encyclopedia of Crazy Quilt Stitches and Motifs, Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts, and An Encyclopedia of Ribbon Embroidery Flowers.
Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.
Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.
Crazy Quilt by Clara Louise Roscoe (1894), Metropolitan Museum of Art.