Tag: indigo

Is this the rarest pigment on the planet?

Posted on December 16, 2024December 16, 2024 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

This is quite likely the rarest pigment on the planet. It’s the only British Indigo dye kit (we’re aware of) derived from certified organic woad plants. 💙 Get one of the […]

Seed Blessings 2024

Posted on March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

What will happen if an international community of textile growers unite to sow good intentions together? Let’s find out! Join a global gathering of textile growers and enthusiasts for a […]

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, […]