Oct 12, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
In this episode of NeedleXChange I interview **Haf Weighton**, a Wales-based contemporary embroidery and textile artist whose work is rooted in places, journeys and the details we usually walk past…
A lot of what you've shown me and a lot of what you've talked about, I just keep thinking about memories, and when you were talking about the bus journey, it made me think about if I go to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Ally Pally, and I get out the station at Finchley, I think it is-
... and get the bus all the way down to Ally Pally, it's like somewhere I've been before, but there are usually th- things that are different.
And if I had to then recount that bus journey to someone, there'd probably only be like two or three things that I could genuinely pull out of memory.
And in some ways it's interesting 'cause I see your work and it feels like that.
It feels like you're, like, retelling journeys to people, meanderings and those kind of things.
And memory isn't perfect, and so the fragments that you put together are your extrapolation of that, but it's not like hard facts.
It's more like this is you remembering and showing us those things that you've remembered.
Strangely enough, the symposium that I spoke at in New Zealand, it was called a H- uh, a Horanga, which is a, I always say this wrong, but m- I think they say Maori-
So I wondered if that's why my work was selected actually because there's a lot to do with journeys in it.
But also for the project for Wrexham, I collaborated with a few different people, but one of them was a man called Noa- Noah Bakhle, who is from Syria, and I work, knew him originally because I did a project at the Center for Refugees and Asylum Seekers for the National Museum of Wales, and we created a big stitched tablecloth.
And I came across him then, and actually when I first met him, he could, his English was very limited actually.
And then over time he did an art access course and then did an art foundation course, and now he's established himself as a filmmaker.
But anyway, got a drone and we went up and down because if you drive between, I live just outside Cardiff.
So we talked a lot about borders and about, you know, his journey really over here and how so challenging to get over some-
A lot of what you've shown me and a lot of what you've talked about, I just keep thinking about memories, and when you were talking about the bus journey, it made me think about if I go to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Ally Pally, and I get out the station at Finchley, I think it is-
... and get the bus all the way down to Ally Pally, it's like somewhere I've been before, but there are usually th- things that are different.
And if I had to then recount that bus journey to someone, there'd probably only be like two or three things that I could genuinely pull out of memory.
And in some ways it's interesting 'cause I see your work and it feels like that.
It feels like you're, like, retelling journeys to people, meanderings and those kind of things.
And memory isn't perfect, and so the fragments that you put together are your extrapolation of that, but it's not like hard facts.
It's more like this is you remembering and showing us those things that you've remembered.
Strangely enough, the symposium that I spoke at in New Zealand, it was called a H- uh, a Horanga, which is a, I always say this wrong, but m- I think they say Maori-
So I wondered if that's why my work was selected actually because there's a lot to do with journeys in it.
But also for the project for Wrexham, I collaborated with a few different people, but one of them was a man called Noa- Noah Bakhle, who is from Syria, and I work, knew him originally because I did a project at the Center for Refugees and Asylum Seekers for the National Museum of Wales, and we created a big stitched tablecloth.
And I came across him then, and actually when I first met him, he could, his English was very limited actually.
And then over time he did an art access course and then did an art foundation course, and now he's established himself as a filmmaker.
But anyway, got a drone and we went up and down because if you drive between, I live just outside Cardiff.
So we talked a lot about borders and about, you know, his journey really over here and how so challenging to get over some-
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