Tag: Patrick Grant

Welcome to the Northern England Fibreshed

Posted on March 31, 2023March 31, 2023 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

After 3 years volunteering as founder/coordinator of North West England Fibreshed and working solo to build awareness of Fibershed principles amongst textile professionals in the region and beyond, I’m happy […]

Homegrown Homespun: Field to Fabric

Posted on December 31, 2021November 13, 2022 by Justine Aldersey-Williams

A lot has happened since August 13th when a group of around 30 volunteers came to Higher Audley St in Blackburn to help pull and lay out our flax. It […]

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, 2021May 26, 2021 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, […]