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The Nettle Dress
Dylan Howitt

The Nettle Dress

  • Documentary

Woven from tragedy, magic and love.

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RELEASE

2023-09-15

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LENGTH

68 min

Description

Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft.

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