A lovely trailer for a documentary called The Nettle Dress. “Allan Brown makes a dress by hand just from the fibre of foraged stinging nettles over 7 years. A modern day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.”
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Wow, I love this.
I received my local fibershed’s newsletter today and it contained a link to a similar project: folks in the UK growing flax and indigo to make a pair of jeans. The trailer isn’t as beautiful but here is a link: Woman Grows Jeans
From the title, I was already thinking of the nettle cloak from T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone, but had to do a double-take after reading the video description saying it was a fairytale. Based on the trailer, this has a different vibe than Kingfisher's book, but they do share a through-line of working through grief via physical labor
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