The Nettle Dress (SOLD OUT)
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Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is Allan’s medicine, ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s how he survives the death of his wife that left him and their children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her. Stunningly filmed by award-winning documentary maker Dylan Howitt, The Nettle Dress follows Allan’s journey through the seasons and years. Foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing the cloth. Finally the dress worn by one of his daughters, back in the woods where the nettles were picked. ‘Grasping the Nettle’ is the heart of the film as making the dress becomes devotional, with every thread representing hours of mindful loving craft. Over seven years both Allan and the nettles are transformed by the process. Both film and dress are a hand-spun labour of love in the truest sense, a modern-day fairytale, a hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.Location
Lansdown Hall & Gallery
Lansdown, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1BB
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The Nettle Dress (SOLD OUT)
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