At The Disappearing Spoon podcast, Sam Kean talks about the history of the Apollo program space suits made by Playtex! “In the 1960s, NASA needed a better spacesuit. So they turned to the one firm on earth capable of meeting their strict standards—the Playtex underwear company.” Listen here.
Check out the entries in Spoonflower’s Robot Quilt Contest. (Thanks, Mike!)
African-Canadian writer and artist Nalo Hopkinson talks about her fabric designs at The New Yorker’s Book Bench: [B]oth my writing and my designs are fuelled by the same passions and obsessions of mine…. I’ve been on a mission for the past few years to find historical depictions of […]