The Bones and Bobbins Podcast

S01E14: The life of serial killer H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) and the creation of His Murder Castle. (Part 1 in a 4-part Halloween series, including 2 main episodes and 2 episodes for our s…

S01E13: Samhain and Halloween history, witchcraft crafts (corn dollies/corn mothers, witch bells, and candles), and creating your own witchcraft altar.

As we descend into this year’s Spooky Season,…

S01E12: The Victorian Language of Flowers (Floriography), Victorian Botanical Scrapbooks (Herbariums), and Seaweed Hunters.

This week, we learned that you can, in fact, send death threats to your e…

S01E11: Wartime Crafting: Girl Guide Spies and Knitting in Codes

You've probably heard of the Girl Guides (and Girl Scouts), but did you know that they were properly badass in WWI and WWII? And, if k…

S01E10: Witch Bottles and Tomb Curses.

Can we please all just agree not to open the tomb, drink the mystery liquid, or make glass bottles filled with nails and pins to explode in fires?

2020 doesn't …

S01E09: The History of Grimoires and How to Make One.

Join us today in the restricted area of the Curiosity Shop, where a squeaky old library cart holds grimoires aplenty! 

Please note that the Curio…

S01E08: Mannequins, Automatons, and a Trip into Hell’s Own Uncanny Valley.

Did that automaton just move? And how long has that mannequin been standing behind me? Hello? Is anybody here?

Show notes: h…

S01E07: Historical, Medical, and Modern Corsets.

In this episode, Haley and Natali discuss sexy potential death traps and boobs. So very many boobs.

Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/0…

S01E06: Making Mummies, Mummy Unwrapping Parties, and Mummy Brown Paint.

In this episode, Haley and Natali cuss out Victorian colonizers while unwrapping the oddly endearing mysteries of mummificatio…

S01E05: Frozen Charlotte Dolls and Victorian Mourning Dolls.

You know what situation both Haley and Natali will nope right on out of? Creepy dolls. Whether they’re ceramics inspired by a morbid cauti…

S01E04: Victorian Chatelaines and the History of Pockets in Women’s Clothing.

In season 1, episode 04 of the Bones & Bobbins podcast, Natali explores the somewhat sinister and extremely infuriating h…

S01E03: Death Masks, the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and the Paris Catacombs.

Throughout history, death has always been the topic of SO MUCH art. But, in this episode, that art actually IS death itse…

S01E02: Scheele’s Green (Arsenic Green), Cadmium Red, and the Radium Girls.

In this episode, Haley and Natali talk colors that can kill and explore the popularity and grim fate of the glamorous, lite…

S01E01: Mother of Forensic Science Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Miyu Kojima’s Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths.

In this very first official episode of the Bones…

The first 3 episodes will go live on launch day, so subscribe now for more crafts-meets-true crime-meets-morbid curiosity creepiness from Haley a…