Joins us from a studio in Glasgow and historian Jade how but here in the studio she s from the University of Huddersfield where she researches the fashion industry and the rag trade in Britain Clare let s start with you when people think about the idea of a history told through sewing that 1st thought might be of the by a tapestry which famously recounts the story of the Battle of Hastings over 68 metre of embroidery but when you went to see that you write that you were seized with theory why was that I deceived a few because what I hadn t realised was that by a tapestry which is 100 years old has really been treasured because of its story not because of how it was me and that natural fact the stitchers those people who actually made it our own acknowledged both in the commentary about the tapestry in the exhibition and the film that accompanies it and I was just astonished that those people from London is near Canterbury those women who had spent so many months years just using their