{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The Point of The Needle - How the Ancient Craft of Stitching Shapes Us","description":"The needle and thread have been humanity\u2019s constant companions for tens of thousands of years: far longer than the dog, the sword, or the wheel, and much longer than reading and writing. Down the centuries the needle has rendered us incredible service and we have come to depend on it. And yet the activity of stitching has long been ignored in the record of human endeavour. Even the modern trend for embracing making and craft tends to leave out sewing. But a new book just out, comes to try to redress the balance.   Haptic & Hue\u2019s Book of the Year for 2023 is Barbara Burman\u2019s The Point of The Needle. In it, Barbara says \u2018stitching and stitches are valued precisely because they embody human life and invention, and cloth itself is inseparable from them\u2019. Barbara was the co-author of the well-received book called \u2018The Pocket \u2013 A Secret History of Women\u2019s Lives\u2019, but in this new book, Barbara has a much bigger canvas: to rescue sewing from the twilight and to celebrate it as a fundamental human activity.   For more information, a full transcript, and further links, https:\/\/hapticandhue.com\/tales-of-textiles-series-5\/ ","author_name":"Haptic & Hue","author_url":"https:\/\/www.hapticandhue.com","html":"