A sneak peak at our upcoming events: 3 exciting events in September we are working on for London Textile Month, LFW and more.
London Premiere of Women Grows Jeans at Picturehouse N8, collab with Northern England Fibreshed, Selvedge Magazine & Fashion Roundtable. With an intro from Catherine West MP & Q&A by Tamara Cincik
Women Grows Jeans Premiere Launch. Image Credit: Justine Aldersey-Williams
Date: Saturday 6th September, 3.30pm - 6.30pm
Location: Crouch End Picturehouse
SCHEDULE:
3:30pm - 3:35pm: Introduction by Catherine West MP
3:35pm - 4:25pm: Women Grows Jeans Screening
4:25pm - 5pm: Q&A/Panel Discussion with Tamara Cincik of Fashion Roundtable and panel TBC
5:30pm - 5:45pm: Guided Meditation to seek inspiration from flax and woad
5:45pm - 6:30pm Intuitive Embroidery with the U.K.’s only Fibreshed verified ‘British Indigo from Organic Woad’ linen thread from Home Grown Colour
Women Grows Jeans Short Trailor and Still. Image Credit: Justine Aldersey-Williams
Regeneration is in danger of becoming a theoretical buzzword, often bandied about in the simulated world of online PR branding, yet it relies upon people developing reverence for ecosystems and practical skills with local materials. Regional Fibreshed founder, Justine Aldersey-Williams, knows all about rolling her sleeves up to do it herself. She recently made fashion history by producing the U.K.’s first pair of homegrown jeans from seed to seam – a feat that involved her growing flax and indigo, breaking, scutching, hackling, extracting and dyeing, then hand spinning every day for a year. Now a film has been made about her pioneering work, which is inspiring audiences worldwide, but at this London premiere, she’ll also be helping viewers ground that inspiration in physical action. In a world of imported, synthetic textiles, Justine is offering an intuitive embroidery workshop using threads dyed with the plants grown during the film. Everyone takes away a little history stitched into their clothing.
PART ONE WOMAN GROWS JEANS FILM PLUS Q&A: 3:30pm – 5pm
Description:
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 uncomfortable 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. After 600 hours, the UK’s only pair of homegrown jeans were handmade—not as a relic, but as a provocative signpost toward the future our hearts know is possible. A celebration of the traditional skills that reconnect us to nature’s wisdom, this documentary proves that the power to create change is still in our hands.
PART TWO 5:15pm – 6:15pm
Following the London premiere of the Woman Grows Jeans film, join director and regional Fibreshed founder, Justine Aldersey-Williams for a holistic immersion into intuitive embroidery using threads dyed with the indigo plants grown during the film.
Description:
Honouring the indigenous roots of regenerative practice, this relaxing guided meditation and intuitive embroidery experience, invites participants to create not just for pleasure or entertainment, but also in service to the earth. Holding the flax and woad seeds that clothed our ancestors for thousands of years, inspiration will be sought from these heritage textile plants in the imaginal realm. Thoughts, feelings, messages and affirmations will then be stitched intuitively on to fabric patches or old garments in need of embellishment or mending. Having seen exactly where the U.K.’s only ‘British Indigo from Organic Woad’ thread was grown during the Woman Grows Jeans film, participants will leave with some of this history stitched into their clothing as a talisman of the beautiful future we can grow together.
N.B. TICKETS JUST WENT ON SALE! And *PLEASE NOTE* this is a TWO-PART experience, so you must buy your film ticket from Crouch End Picturehouse and your workshop ticket from Selvedge Magazine.
Link to tickets: Crouch End Picturehouse
We will be at Carry Somers ‘THE NATURE OF FASHION’, London book launch event in partnership with Fashion Roundtable.
The Nature of Fashion Book Cover. Image Credit: Carry Somers
Book Launch Programme:
Introduction: Muna Reyal, Executive Editor at Chelsea Green Publishing and Julia Silk, Literary Agent at Greyhound Literary.
Reading: Excerpts from The Nature of Fashion by Carry Somers
Q&A: Hosted by Tamara Cincik, Founder & CEO of Fashion Roundtable
Book Signing by Carry
Drinks Reception: drinks, celebration and conversation with friends
If plants have shaped fashion’s past, couldn’t they hold the secret to its future? Vivid, celebratory, impassioned and angry, The Nature of Fashion is an epic sweep through the history of how we learned to create clothing with plants, revealing how textiles have transformed the human world and our natural landscape.
More than just a story about plant-based fashion, The Nature of Fashion chronicles the plant stewards, obsessives, innovators and profiteers who have shaped what we wear. It is about the clash of worlds, voracious exploitation and silenced voices; about devotion, passion, blindness, idealism, greed and how clothing has separated us from nature.
Told through intimate vignettes into this past, each person, people group, plant and place is a thread in the fabric of the book, forging connections across place and time. And like weaving, as the story strands weave in and out, the pattern slowly emerges.
Carry Somers Headshot. Image Credit: Carry Somers
About Carry:
Instagram: @carrysomers
Carry Somers is an author and storyteller whose work connects the worlds of fashion, nature, and creativity. She co-founded Fashion Revolution, the world’s largest fashion activism movement, and founded Pachacuti, the world’s first Fair Trade certified company and a pioneer of supply chain transparency. Her work has influenced industries worldwide, from championing artisans to investigating microfibre pollution to exploring the future of plant fibres and dyes as a Churchill Fellow.
In The Nature of Fashion (Chelsea Green/Rizzoli Autumn 2025) Carry offers more than a history—she presents a vision. Drawing on decades of research, her lyrical exploration of the history of plant materials invites us to look beyond the surface and discover the deeper patterns that shape our lives. Her writing reveals how fashion is interwoven with the rhythms of nature, encouraging us to see the world in new and unexpected hues.
Interwoven: Wool Across Borders event in partnership with Khadi London and Selvedge Textile Month in London
Khadi London x London Textile Month, Event Proposal. Image Credit: Khamir
Date: 22nd September, 10 - 5pm
Location: Museum of the Home
Come and see Harriet, our Textiles Researcher who be speaking on Panel 1 - Understanding Wool - From Heritage to Global Supply Chains at 11am.
This discussion traces wool’s journey through land, people, and place - examining its cultural significance and everyday value in both the UK and India. Speakers share grounded insights from across the value chain, from farming and herding to processing and trade, revealing how wool intersects with heritage, labour, and livelihood. The session reflects on shared challenges such as the decline of intergenerational knowledge and limited access to markets, while asking: how might we reimagine wool’s place in more local, connected, and resilient futures?
Interwoven: Wool Across Borders will bring together artisans, researchers, designers, and wool experts to examine how wool can support ecological and cultural resilience, decentralised textile systems, and offer a regenerative alternative to synthetic-dominated value chains. From ancestral herding practices on the brink of extinction to future-facing circular economies, the symposium offers tactile engagement, cross-cultural dialogue, and visionary perspectives on how we can rebuild the value of wool across cultures, generations and sectors.
Link to tickets: Selvedge