I’m founder of the Northern England Fibreshed, helping rebuild local agroecological textile systems. My specialism is botanical dyes, I’m a producer of British Indigo from Organic Woad at Homegrown Colour Ltd and teach from my studio, The Wild Dyery.
I grew, hand-spun, dyed and produced the U.K.’s first pair of
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# WomanGrowsJeans
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Each year I offer the
# GrowingSlowTextiles
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