Tickets
- £5.00
All Locations
- Royal Manor Theatre, 138A Fortuneswell, Portland DT5 1LT, UK
The time he spent sitting with Alex is effectively spun right into the yarn, and crafters everywhere will relate to how memories get entwined or sewn or glued into the things they make, especially feelings of grief and loss.
Leslie Felperin, Financial Times
“Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief” Mark Rylance
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand just from the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. It’s how Allan survives the passing of his wife, leaving him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
Stunningly filmed by award-winning documentary maker Dylan Howitt, The Nettle Dress follows Allan’s journey through seasons and years, foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing the cloth, before finally sharing a healing vision of the dress back in the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters.
A labour of love in the truest sense, The Nettle Dress is a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft. It’s one story representing a huge groundswell of people rediscovering the joys of making.
12A rating
This event is part of our Community Connection Programme funded by Dorset Council
