Sew What?
Sew What?
Isabella Rosner
The Embroidery of Lorina Bulwer: An Interview with Ruth Battersby
1 hour 5 minutes Posted Apr 17, 2025 at 11:00 am.
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In this episode, Isabella interviews Ruth Battersby, Senior Curator of Costume and Textiles at Norfolk Museums Service. The two talk about the embroidery of Lorina Bulwer, a Victorian woman institutionalised in the Great Yarmouth Workhouse who spent her days embroidering vibrant, angry, and extremely long biographical scrolls. Images and sources are available at @sewwhatpodcast on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. The podcast has a website, sewwhatpodcast.com.