The Stitch Safari Podcast
Australian Textile Artist, Cathy Jack Coupland hosts this brand-new fortnightly safari-inspired podcast, journeying into the beguiling world of stitch, sewing, and embroidery, with insights into its history, use, and innovations. Join this unique expedition and thread your way into the amazing and irresistible world of needle and thread. Learn more about Cathy's work with needle and thread at cathyjackcoupland.com
The Stitch Safari Podcast
Medieval Embroidery Tools
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Cathy Jack Coupland
Looking at, and researching surviving work produced during the Middle Ages, has made me want to explore the tools Medieval embroiderers used. Would they recognise any of ours? Would I recognise any of theirs? Quite a few, surprisingly, so let’s explore just what they had secreted away in their Medieval sewing baskets.