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Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress
Reskillience
1 hour 5 minutes
8 months ago
Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress
One of today's guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress [https://www.nettledress.org/] — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown.
It's a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads, gentle stories, and the magic of following your heart.
Dylan Howitt [https://www.dylanhowitt.com/] is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown [https://www.instagram.com/hedgerow.couture/?hl=en] is a textile artist and subject of the film whose steady commitment to disrupting consumer culture is contagious.
It's hard to sing The Nettle Dress's praises highly enough without shattering a window, but I truly hope you're moved to watch it after this conversation, perhaps with a posse of pals and a cauldron of nettle soup.
🧙♀️ LINKY POOS
***Watch The Nettle Dress [https://www.nettledress.org/watch]***
The Nettle Dress's home on the web [https://www.nettledress.org/home]
The Nettle Dress on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/nettledressfilm/?hl=en]
Short film & group ~ Nettles for Textiles [http://www.nettlesfortextiles.org.uk/wp/]
Flaxland UK [https://www.flaxland.co.uk/]
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Reskillience
Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.