Episode 157: The House of Lowe

the memory palace

Nate DiMeo

Radiotopia, Publicradio, History, Natedimeo

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

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A note on shownotes. In a perfect world, you go into each episode of the Memory Palace knowing nothing about what's coming. It's pretentious, sure, but that's the intention. So, if you don't want any spoilers or anything, you can click play without reading ahead.

Music

Philharmonics (Piano Sessions), from Agnes Obel.
Pre-Barok by Mica Levi and Oliver Coates.
Space in Between by Federico Albanese.
Warm Canto by Mal Waldron.
Blink by Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Notes

There are two lovely books I relied on heavily for this story: Something to Prove: A Biography of Ann Lowe, Forgotten Designer by Julia Dockery Smith.
And Rosemary Read's The Threads of Time, Fabric of History.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the memory palace.
0:02.2	I'm Nate Demet.
0:05.2	Everything was ruined.
0:06.2	It wasn't her fault.
0:08.1	She'd done everything right.
0:09.5	She finished on schedule with two weeks left to tinker if she needed to, but she didn't
0:13.6	even need to.
0:14.9	But the water man just burst.
0:17.1	Everything was ruined.
0:18.1	All the brides made dresses.
0:19.6	All that work.
0:20.7	The cutting, the sewing, stitching by hand.
0:23.5	The consultations with the mother and then the bride, and then the bride with the mother
0:27.3	and on and on all the drawings and fittings and alterations, hundreds of yards of fabric
0:32.1	just ruined.
0:33.2	Two months of work ruined.
0:35.4	Ten days before the wedding.
0:37.8	There was nothing and low it could do but wipe her tears and get back to work.
0:42.2	The family didn't need to know.
0:43.8	She would remake the dresses.
0:45.6	All of them.
0:46.6	Pull all nighters every night.
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