Growing Slow Textiles: a 9 month journey from seed to cloth

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Growing Slow Textiles is an invitation to develop a regenerative craft practice by journeying through every stage from seed to cloth with two heritage fibre and dye plants - flax and indigo. During this holistic process you’ll join a pioneering community exploring deep ecology and defining for ourselves what it means to be ‘Earth Restorers’.
Over the course of nine x 2hr monthly online meetings, you’ll be guided through the empowering skills that enabled our ancestors to sow, tend, harvest, process, spin, dye and weave their own cloth. In addition, this process will allow space for group enquiry into embodied ecology and indigeneity.
The restoration of the planet will be pleasurable. - Sophie Strand
Some of the practical skills shared include:-
* regenerative growing principals
* rippling, retting, breaking, scutching and hackling flax
* drop spindle linen spinning
* indigo pigment extraction and both vat and fresh leaf dyeing
* hand weaving your own indigo linen pieces of cloth
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