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Fiber Nation
Hosted by Interweave · EN
Join host Allison Korleski as she brings you stories from all corners of the yarniverse. From Victorian murder mysteries to the trenches of the Western Front, from deadly dyes to futuristic fabric, each episode explores the connections between fiber, history, and humanity.
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Bonus Episode: "The Cloak of Invisibility"
Apr 1, 202200:10:30Tap to summarizeWhat does it take to disappear? So-called cloaking technology is common on things like fighter jets, but recent advances at MIT have created flexible "fabric" surfaces capable of bending light. It might sound like Harry Potter hocus pocus, but it’s quite possible, in the next decade, to have clothing that makes the wearer invisible.Find Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/cloak-of-invisibility/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Everything Will Be Fine: Twisted Tales of Travel
Mar 17, 202200:29:05Tap to summarizeYou go on a trip, and stuff happens. You lose your luggage or miss your plane. But what if the stuff that happens is a little more epic? Like war zone, poisonous snakes, engines-falling-out-of-your-plane kind of epic? Could you roll with that? Find Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/twisted-tales-of-travel/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Part 2
Feb 17, 202200:36:10Tap to summarizeThe Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire lasted fewer than 30 minutes and killed 146 people, most of them young women. The disaster’s aftermath would lead to sweeping labor reforms and workplace safety regulations we still have today. It would transform Democrats into a progressive party. And it would, more than 20 years down the road, help elect Franklin D Roosevelt president, paving the way for the New Deal.Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/triangle-factory-fire-part-two/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Part 1
Dec 16, 202100:30:17Tap to summarizeOn a warm spring day in 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. Within minutes it engulfed the top three stories of the factory building. 146 people died in the blaze; 123 of them young women who worked there. It was one of the worst industrial disasters in the United States.The fire and its aftermath would transform US politics and shape the growing labor movement for decades. But to really understand the events of 1911, we need to go back two years and tell a much larger story than that of a single factory.Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/triangle-factory-fire-part-one/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcribe →Fiber Nation Knit Night: Reindeer Recipes and Attractive Cowpeas
Dec 1, 202100:01:35Tap to summarizeWe’re excited to announce another Fiber Nation Live Knit Night! Bring your knitting, and join us Wednesday, December 8 at 6 pm EST for a talk with Danielle Dreilinger, featured on the “Home Economics vs. Hitler” episode.Since it’s the holiday season, we thought we’d change things up and talk about food, festive or otherwise. (Quite possibly otherwise.) Danielle will introduce us to some wonderful cookbooks and recipes from the Bureau of Home Economics, including 99 Ways to Share the Meat and Attractive Ways of Cooking Cowpeas. We might even tackle the history of Jell-o salad!Notes and registration: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/fiber-nation-knit-night-reindeer-recipes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Lifting the Hem on Scottish Kilts
Nov 18, 202100:27:57Tap to summarizeWe look at the evolution of men’s fashion, and how it helped turn an obscure ethnic costume into one of history’s most famous garments. We talk about how tartan patterns became a marketing scheme in the 1800s, and, scandalously, we discover that the Scottish kilt we know today…may have been created by an Englishman.Find our Show Notes here: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/scottish-kilts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Sheep & Cattle Wars
Oct 28, 202100:33:41Tap to summarizeThe American West is this mythic place…the land of Wyatt Earp and Calamity Jane, cattle drives, and cowboys. Myths aside, it's also the land of the western range wars, where cattlemen and sheepmen battled over access to grass and water. Dozens of sheepherders were killed and 100,000 sheep were slaughtered, all before a Colorado congressman ended the violence in 1934. But a mere generation later, it's the sheep owners who had the last laugh.Follow along on the show notes page: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/sheep-and-cattle-wars/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Crochet Coral Reef
Sep 30, 202100:31:15Tap to summarizeIn this episode, we dive into a place where art, ecology, science, and math come together into something extraordinary. And we learn how a 2300-year-old geometric system was blown out of the water by a woman crocheting blobby things. Welcome to the Crochet Coral Reef. Link to show notes: https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/crochet-coral-reef/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm Sorry, Dave. I Can't Knit That.
Aug 26, 202100:29:09Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is all about artificial intelligence—AI. What it is, what it ISN’T, what it can and can’t do. What happens when you try to teach a computer how to knit? Can a neural network match the creativity of a human? And what might happen if the Terminator became a knitwear designer? Find Show Notes links here. https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/ai-knitting-im-sorry-dave-i-cant-knit-that/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Home Economics vs. Hitler
Jun 24, 202100:34:41Tap to summarizeOn today’s episode, we explore the radical origins behind home economics. Hear how it became important enough to have its own federal agency. And learn how one particular sewing magazine became a game-changer during WWII. Find Show Notes here. https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nation/home-economics-vs-hitler-sewing-wwii/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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