WITH PRE-RECORDED Q&A
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion, and it is also Allan’s medicine. 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 all the seasons and years. Foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing the cloth.

Finally the healing vision of the dress back in the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters. ‘Grasping the Nettle’ is at the heart of the film. Making a dress this way becomes devotional, with every thread representing hours of mindful loving craft. Over seven years Allan is transformed by the process just as the nettles are. Both the film and dress are a hand-spun labour of love in the truest sense, The Nettle Dress is a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

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