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Creative Magic24: Justine Aldersey-Williams - Reclaiming Matrilineal CraftsJustine Aldersey-Williams is a textile activist, speaker and teacher specialising in natural fabric dyeing and regenerative clothing. She hand-dyes textiles at her studio, The Wild Dyery, in Hoylake UK, using many plants grown on her nearby food, fibre and dye allotment and teaches both live and online courses in botanical dyeing techniques.Justine qualified as a teacher in 1998 and has since taught extensively to schools, colleges, universities and crafts groups. A yoga teacher since 2006, Justine’s textile work intersects creativity, spirituality and environmentalism. She devises creative rituals that reconnect people with nature and sees botanical dyeing as...2024-11-2558 min
The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara ArtemisiaIndigo Initiations from Seed to Cloth: The power of listening to plants with Justine Aldersey-Williams#59 – Have you ever tried the ancient skill of listening to plants through your fingertips? I loved connecting with botanical textile dyer Justine Aldersey-Williams on the initiatory journey she experienced while growing her own pair of jeans from seeds into cloth. In this episode, Justine shares about her mythic field-to-fashion creation process and of being in a life of apprenticeship to the plants, specifically with the ancient indigo-blue plant called Woad. She offers wisdom on the global lore of Indigo and the sense of deep fulfillment that comes with reclaiming ancestral skills as a mindfulness practice. She...2024-04-1830 min
Game ChangersJustine Aldersey-Williams: Woman Grows JeansIn a climate of increasing awareness of fast-fashion and rising eco-anxiety globally, a pioneering textile artisan has the seeds for solution.Justine Aldersey-Williams’ vision is as creative as it is revolutionary. Drawing inspiration from Lancashire's rich industrial heritage, Justine has used agroecological principles with native fibre and dye crops to grow her own jeans.In this episode of Amazing Starts Here, Sam Quek hears from Justine and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant to find out how this groundbreaking idea came to be, and the many technical skills required to actually grow a...2023-10-1822 min
Garmology - A podcast about clothes, and stuff.Woman grows jeans - With Justine Aldersey-Williams, The Wild Dyery (#127)Season premiere! This episode is about the epic task set by Justine Aldersey-Williams of The Wild Dyery and Northern England Fibreshed to create a pair of jeans from seed entirely in the UK. You might think this sounds simple enough, grow some fibres, dye, weave and sew, right? That's what Justine thought when starting out. Listen in to hear the twisty tale of learning many new skills, finding plenty of help, a fair few unexpected problems and what might be the most costly jeans in the UK. You can find Justine on Instagram as @thewilddyery and The W...2023-09-151h 22
Sustainability Changemakers in Fashion by Denim PrivéEpisode 19: Growing Indigo Linen Jeans with Justine from Northern England FibreshedJustine Aldersey-Williams founded the Northern England Fibreshed to create a more regenerative system for textile production. We talk about the Homegrown Homespun project and how she is growing, weaving, and essentially making a pair of jeans from beginning to end in a no-short-cuts kind of way.
Follow her:
https://www.instagram.com/thewilddyery/
Visit her website:
https://naturalfabricdyeing.com/
2023-07-0330 min
Cloth Cultures with Amber ButchartEp 4 : Linen 2 with Alison Toplis and Justine Aldersey-WilliamsThroughout the Cloth Cultures podcasts and associated exhibition, fashion historian Amber Butchart explores movement, migration and making through cloth, speaking to artists, historians, makers, and scientists to shed light on our textile history. Featuring Alison Toplis, research fellow at Wolverhampton University and author of The Hidden History of the Smock Frock and Justine Aldersey-Williams from North West England Fibreshed and collaborator on the Homegrown/Homespun project with Patrick Grant.Focussing on four fabrics – silk, linen, wool and cotton - Amber investigates the global strands of local stories that link Lancashire, at the heart of th...2021-09-1636 min