
Hosted by The Northern New England Fibershed
Virtual
When
Dec 21, 6:00 PM EST
Price
$7.00 USD per person
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Woman Grows Jeans
When an ambitious experiment between a textile activist and a celebrity clothier meets inevitable challenges, one woman is propelled into an initiation that makes British fashion history. With a community of volunteers, they envisioned homegrown jeans sold through a social enterprise, but their work exposed difficult truths about the systems controlling industry. Despite its sophistication, the U.K. can no longer produce clothing without importing materials or causing harm.
In a country buying 70 million pairs a year, Woman Grows Jeans journeys into our resilient ancestry to reclaim the care and agency that’s key to regeneration. What unfolds is a tender, radical act of reconnection: to land, lineage, and the almost lost skills of the ‘more-than-human’ world.
After 600 hours, the UK’s only pair of homegrown jeans were handmade - not as a relic, but as a signpost toward the future our hearts know is possible. A celebration of the traditional skills that reconnect us to nature’s wisdom, Woman Grows Jeans is an uplifting film about what it really means to rewild our world, our wardrobes and ourselves. For anyone who’s ever wondered if a different future is possible, this pioneering story shows that the power to create change is still in our hands.
Event Participants
Justine Aldersey-Williams
The featured artist-star of the film
About the film
Genre
Documentary
Released
2025
Director
Justine Aldersey-Williams
Producer
Perelandra Beedles
Executive Producer
Nick Beedles
Cast
Chelsea Canovas, BBC Countryfile Team, Helen Keys, Homegrown Homespun volunteers, Jane McCann, Jenni Jones, Justine Aldersey-Williams, Kirsty Leadbetter, Laurie Peake, Mark Palmer, Mohsin Sajid, Patrick Grant, Perelandra Beedles, Simon Cooper, The Wild Dyery students, Anthony Green, Ali Sharman, Betty Beedles, Carole Bowman, Charlie Mallon