Hoylake, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
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
jeans as an act of creative rebellion against fast fashion during my experiment and now speak from my personal experiences of traditional textile skills and the ‘field to fashion’ process.
Each year I offer the seed to cloth initiation to those wishing to embody regenerative principles. Practicing the pre-industrial textiles skills that clothed humanity for 30,000 years, reconnects participants to the wisdom of plants and to a time before ecocide. Once empowered with the agency to grow their own cloth, a revaluing of planetary materials and human labour occurs that negates waste consumerism and sanctifies fashion.
