That's me with Kathrin Breitt Brown in the Spinning House at Mount Vernon - George and Martha Washington's home in Virginia, talking about the textiles they used to produce there and what they were used for. I'm a handweaver making podcasts about the tales of textiles. Cloth tells us so much about who we are and how we live, and yet we take it for granted. In an age of textile abundance, we are in danger of forgetting how much its creation and its use has given us as human beings. Textile production is, in many ways, the story of humanity seen through a different lens. If you are interested, find out more at www.hapticandhue.come/listen