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Textile Talk with House of Noorie Founder Prerana Choudhury
I recently had a great conversation with Prerana, founder of House of Noorie, about traditional textiles in Assam, India—and about a question that becomes increasingly complicated the longer you sit with it: What does it actually mean to pr...
Building Worlds: View the Live-streamed Ask an Anthropologist Episode
On August 18th I was a guest on the Ask an Anthropologist About Worldbuilding podcast, hosted by Michael Kilman on YouTube. Michael is an anthropologist, speculative fiction author, and social science communicator. He explores how people, s...
Intro to Textile Anthropology Mini-Course: FAQs
Last week I announced the new mini-course I’ve been developing for my paid subscribers, Introduction to Textile Anthropology. The course will unfold here on Substack, with one module released each month for ten months, starting in September...
Introduction to Textile Anthropology: An exclusive mini-course for paid subscribers to the Thread
Folded fabric in an open market. Photo by Kenza Benaouda on Unsplash
What if you could learn to look at a piece of cloth and see more than its pattern, fiber content, or the technique used to make it?
What if you could begin to see the pe...
Chat with Shagho from Folk Lounge
Hey textile friends! I’m excited to bring you the first in a new series of posts that I’ve got planned, where I invite folks working at the grassroots level to support and revitalize textile traditions and pick their brain about how they st...
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