Tag: British Textile Biennial

Our Woman Grows Jeans x Fibreshed Fundraiser Begins TONIGHT!

Posted on June 11, 2025June 12, 2025 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

Today marks the start of a month-long Northern England Fibreshed fundraiser in collaboration with our founder Justine Aldersey-Williams at The Wild Dyery. Woman Grows Jeans is the origin story of […]

Homegrown Homespun Textile Crafts: the bridge between farming and fashion

Posted on July 8, 2021October 15, 2021 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

The Homegrown Homespun team under the community banner In Blackburn, Lancashire.

This article is a celebration of natural materials, the environment that produced them and the people who’s skills transformed them into a beautiful banner, on site at the Homegrown Homespun […]

Homegrown Homespun – Sowing Regenerative Fashion

Posted on May 20, 2021July 5, 2023 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

Justine Aldersey-Williams of The Wild Dyery and North West England Fibreshed, Patrick Grant, of Community Clothing, Etautz, Norton and Sons and Laurie Peake of their British Textile Biennial and Super Slow Way on site at the Homegrown Homespun project.

Growing Jeans On Friday 23rd April 2021, the Homegrown Homespun project planted it’s first textile crop of flax and woad on disused land beside the historic Leeds to Liverpool canal, […]