No Ordinary Cloth: Intersection of textiles, emerging technology, craft and sustainability
Textiles matter! It is the most ubiquitous and powerful material we live with - it has the power to fulfil both our senses and our soul.
Join Mili Tharakan, a Smart Textiles designer and researcher with 20+ years experience, as she speaks to textile makers, engineers, bio-chemists, material scientists, artists, innovators and others who are pushing the boundaries of the Textile and Fashion industry by creating textiles that challenge the very meaning, role and function of fabrics as we know it today.
Through her conversations and insights with global experts, she brings alive the myriad facets of the world of Textiles - a world where there are no ordinary cloths and fabrics have the power to change us and our world.
So listen in and be inspired, learn, find connections and create extraordinary textiles...
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Credits
Cover art: Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash
Music: Inspired Ambient, Orchestraman
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 25
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
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Ep 3: Knitting Mathematics and Musical Textiles with Sophie Skach
Whether you love or hate mathematics, you are going to enjoy listening to this episode.
In this interview, Sophie Skach, a fashion designer and researcher, discusses her passion for interweaving the w…
Ep 2: From Garden waste to Leather with Daniela Rondinone
Who doesn’t love a beautiful leather jacket or bag. Sadly, the leather industry’s high water and chemical waste from the tanning process is extremely polluting. And faux leather is made from polyuret…
Ep 1: Light and Lace with Sara Robertson
Sara Robertson is a smart textile maker and researcher who has been exploring different ways to translate concepts of change and movement in nature through her beautiful textile creation over the las…
Trailer
The future of Textile awaits and we are stitching it together one episode at a time....
Join me in this podcast series to learn and be inspired by all the incredible textiles that is radically changi…