The Nettle Dress

The Nettle Dress

Encore screenings in cinemas as part of Curzon Home Cinema Presents… on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 December.

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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.

Actor Mark Rylance called the film, “Exquisite and inspiring, beautiful and helpful for anyone suffering loss or grief”.

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Runtime 68 Minutes
Release date 30 October 2023

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