Paderborn is not typically regarded as a fashion city: you won’t find any big-name designers, catwalks or fashion weeks here. Yet the city is steeped in textile history, as clothing and fabrics are part of everyday life. Many of these stories can be found in hidden places where textile practices link the past and the present. This is where the podcast “Stadtspuren aus Stoff” (Traces of the City in Fabric), created by students on a cultural studies seminar at Paderborn University, comes in. The project focuses on local sites in Paderborn that have a special connection to the history of textiles and clothing.
For the podcast, the students visited these places, researched their backgrounds, collected stories and designed them as a walking tour. The route leads from the cathedral through the shopping streets, along the city ring road to Neuhaus Castle. Stops include a parament workshop, former and existing department stores, the open workshop at “FreiWerk”, and historical traces of the Hussar regiments at Neuhaus Castle.
The podcast invites listeners to discover Paderborn from a new perspective. New episodes are released every two weeks via this link.
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