Behind the Journeys

Islamic gardens are more than places for growing and playing. Rooted in the Quranic vision of paradise, they are deeply philosophical environments designed as a microcosm of the universe. In this week's blog, we take a quick look at the defining features of these captivating spaces.

Australia's National Wool Museum (NWM) in the port city of Geelong, Victoria is home to a unique and nationally significant collection that traces the continent's long and fascinating of history of wool, fibre and textiles. It also holds one of Australia’s largest and most significant public collections of heritage quilts and waggas, the original bushman's blanket.

Anyone who has seen Richard Attenborough’s mesmerising series ‘Secret Lives of Orangutans’ will have fallen in love with this ‘person of the forest’ (the literal meaning of orangutan in Malay). In this week's blog we take a look at a remarkable Orangutan conservation project.

Norway's arctic landscape and rich cultural heritage have had a deep impact not only on the country's quilting traditions, but on their knitwear too. In this week's blog we take a quick look at the iconic Lusekofte.

India’s textile history spans 6,000 years. This fascinating heritage is celebrated in two storied collections, both of which we visit in our Grand Quilting & Textile Tour. In this week's blog, we take an appetite-whetting peek at the treasures inside.

Liberty is a quintessentially British brand, but its famous fabrics are made at their printing mill near the banks of Italy’s Lake Como. In this week's blog we take a look inside.