The Nettle Dress

A modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft.

‘Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief.’  Sir Mark Rylance

Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also the medicine that helps him survive the death of his wife, which leaves him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.

A recorded Q&A with Allan Brown and the director Dylan Howitt will be screened after the film.