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.