24: Justine Aldersey-Williams - Reclaiming Matrilineal Crafts

Justine 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 a gateway craft that can inspire people to feel more reverence for their ecosystems.She founded the Northern England Fibreshed, part of the international Fibershed not-for-profit organisation in March 2020 and volunteers to help establish regenerative textile systems using 'local fibres, local dyes and local labour' throughout the region.Justine’s website NaturalFabricDyeing.com/Instagram @thewilddyeryHome Grown ColourWe talked about :Growing slow textilesAnimismMatrilineal textile craftFinding the right language for what we doThe metaphor of weavingCreative and growing rituals that reconnect people with nature Her project making the first pair of locally-grown, dyed and woven jeansMoving from being consumers to creatorsHow plants communicate to usWhen creativity is disabling - burnout and being multi-passionate creativesIn the bonus episode we also discuss:The fashion industry and environmentalismHer relationship with being visible and being a channelMore on woad and indigoResourcesWeaving Our Way Beyond PatriarchySatish KumarMedicine FestivalZach BushUma Dinsmore TuliWomen who Run with the WolvesVandana ShivaThe Feminist Lecture ProgramPatrick GrantManda Scott Boudica booksTreeSisters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.