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'Grasping the Nettle' is at the heart of this story. The challenge of making zero carbon clothing means relearning ancient crafts: foraging, processing, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing.
Making a dress this way becomes devotional and healing.
Director Dylan Howitt says: ‘This is a story about the deep value of creativity and imagination, and a slow, mindful craft that is more in tune with the natural world.’
The dress is made up of 14,400 feet of thread, each one representing hours of loving attention. In the film the dress is finally worn in the woods where the nettles were picked, by Oonagh, one of Allan's daughters.
Join us for The Nettle Dress, a feature documentary following the textile artist Allan Brown who spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles.
The story of a dress woven from tragedy, magic and love.
This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine. It’s how he survives the death of his wife Alex and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
Thursday 20 March, 2025
doors 7:00pm
film 7:30pm
£5 tickets
refreshments available
bar open