Stream and Seam into the New Year

Eleven films for textile and fashion enthusiasts to snuggle in with and enjoy

Photo by author.

As the door opens on a new year, fire up your imagination with a film or two. These each feature the world of fabric and textiles, threads and needles. You may find them on additional streaming services than those listed.

Do you have a film to add to the list? I’d love to learn about them.

• Bright Star (2009) (1 hr. 59 min.) (Amazon) Poet John Keats falls in low with Fanny, a woman passionate about creating fashion by hand.
• Bunkar: The Last of the Varanasi Weavers (2018) (1 hr. 7 min.) (Amazon) A documentary sharing the lives of hand-loom weavers in India.

Varanasi silk weaver. Photo by Steve Kimberly on Wikimedia Commons.

• Coco before Chanel (2009) (1 hr. 46 min.) (Amazon) Audrey Tautou stars as Gabriella Chanel in the years leading up to her phenomenal success as the creator of classic fashion.
• How to Make an American Quilt (1988) (1 hr. 57 min.) (Amazon, Netflix) Wynona Ryder joins with Anne Bancroft in this book-based story of a young women who spends the summer with her grandmother’s quilting circle.
• Mahogany (1975) (109 min.) (Turner Classic Movies)…