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Dressed: The History of Fashion

Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration with Isabella Rosner, Part II (Dressed Classic)

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, History

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Welcome to part 2 of our 2024 conversation with embroidery historian Isabella Rosner who joined us to discuss her book/zine Stitching Freedom: Embroidery and Incarceration which explores the embroidery made in prisons and mental health hospitals through the surviving works of twelve individuals. Each of which stand as a testament to the triumphs and sorrows of the human spirit and a reminder of "what can be created when freedom is out of reach." Want more Dressed: The History of Fashion?  Our ⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠classes⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ Our ⁠⁠⁠bookshelf⁠⁠⁠ with over 150 of our favorite fashion history titles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4

Please enjoy one of our favorite episodes from the Dressed Archive of over 500 plus shows.

0:35.9

Dress the History of Fashion is a production of dress media.

0:44.0

Over 8 million people in the world, we all have one thing in common. Every day, we all get

0:49.1

dressed. Welcome to Dressed, the History of Fashion, a podcast where we explore the who, what, when of why we wear.

0:56.7

We are fashion historians and your host, April Callahan, and Cassidy Zachary.

1:02.4

Hello, dress listeners, and welcome back to part two of our fascinating and incredibly moving conversation with embroidery historian Isabella Rosner, who joins us this week

1:12.6

to discuss her recently published zine stitching freedom, embroidery, and incarceration.

1:17.8

You may remember from part one of this episode on Wednesday that Isabella is one busy

1:22.8

embroidery historian. Not only is she a fellow podcaster with her So What Podcast about historic needlework,

1:28.5

but she is a research associate at Whitney Antiques in London and the curator of the Royal School

1:33.7

of Needlework. Which, as the name suggests, is an embroidery school at Hampton Court Palace in

1:39.6

London and comes with a rather fascinating history cast, as their website tells us, quote,

1:45.1

the early history of the Royal School of Needlework is linked with the social, cultural, and political history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

1:55.0

Founded by Lady Victoria Welby, the Royal School of Needlework, began as the School of Art Needlework in 1872 in a small room above a bonnet shop on Sloan Street in London, initially employing 20 ladies, moving in 1903 to a new purpose-built center on Exhibition Road close to the VNA Museum, where at its peak, the Royal School of Neder

2:18.6

Work employed around 150 workers. That's amazing. Fast forward to today, and it is an internationally

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