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Long Thread Media · 158 episodes with transcripts

The artists and artisans of the fiber world come to you in The Long Thread Podcast. Each episode features interviews with your favorite spinners, weavers, needleworkers, and fiber artists from across the globe.

Spoken has transcripts of 158 The Long Thread Podcast episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 3, 2026.

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curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/1508572777/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

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Latest The Long Thread Podcast transcripts

Sally Pointer, Experimental Archaeologist

October 3, 2026

Anne Merrow (0:04)

Welcome to The Long Thread Podcast about spinning, stitching, and weaving by hand. The podcast is presented by Long Thread Media, publishers of spin-off, hand-woven, piecework, and Little Looms magazines. Find us online at longthreadmedia.com. Treenway Silks is where weavers, spinners, knitters, and stitchers find…

I'm your host, Long Thread Media co-founder, Anne Merrow.

Sally Pointer (1:08)

My absolute pleasure.

Anne Merrow (1:10)

So I happen to be looking at what's called the red list, the list of heritage craft in the UK that are considered to be in danger of not being around too much longer. And while I was looking at it, I actually saw your name on there as a practitioner twice.

I saw you on there for both nullbending and also for processing bast fibers.

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