ECVS is delighted to be showing this tremendous documentary that came-and-went, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it when it came out.
Stunningly filmed by award-winning documentary maker Dylan Howitt, 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.
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. Actor Mark Rylance called the film “Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief”.
Wednesday 27th March 7:30 at ECVS. Get your tickets here.