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by Veronica Tucker
Clothing is never just clothing.Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette is telling you something. About power, politics and whose story got told and whose didn’t. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story. Starting with the cloth itself and then following it wherever it leads.Most fashion history looks at the outside. This show looks at the inside. The construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. The women who encoded military intelligence into knitting. The weavers whose binary logic built the first computer. The dyers, the spinners, the pattern cutters whose names were never written down.Cloth tells the truth even when the official record doesn’t.For makers and thinkers. For everyone who has ever looked at a garment and felt there was more to it than they were being told.Hosted by Veronica Tucker.
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- 1 weeks ago11 min
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 becoming a fairy tale. Arianrhod survived in a manuscript written by people who tried to conta...
- 1 weeks ago9 min
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 Sumerian spider goddess who dates to 3000 BCE, through Inanna, Neith, Hathor, Isis, and Athena. S...
- 2 weeks ago17 min
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 textile labour was so economically central that it got encoded into the language itself, into surnames carried ...
- 3 weeks ago10 min
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 that made it impossible to fake, and the laws that made wearing the wrong shade a capit...
- May 3, 20269 min
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 foundation and whose name ends up on it. Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/veronicatuckerthelabel/
About The Culture of Cloth
Clothing is never just clothing.Every fibre, every colour, every silhouette is telling you something. About power, politics and whose story got told and whose didn’t. The Culture of Cloth is a podcast about learning to read that story. Starting with the cloth itself and then following it wherever it leads.Most fashion history looks at the outside. This show looks at the inside. The construction, the decisions, the invisible hands that made it, and the world those hands were living in. The women who encoded military intelligence into knitting. The weavers whose binary logic built the first computer. The dyers, the spinners, the pattern cutters whose names were never written down.Cloth tells the truth even when the official record doesn’t.For makers and thinkers. For everyone who has ever looked at a garment and felt there was more to it than they were being told.Hosted by Veronica Tucker.
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