Justine Aldersey-Williams
Director, Wild Dyery and founder, NW England Fibreshed
Justine Aldersey-Williams is a creative activist, textile artisan and educator specialising in botanical dyeing. She is Director of The Wild Dyery, where she devises rewilding rituals that reconnect people with natural fibres and colours that extend the life of their clothing. She has developed a comprehensive online training which has reached 2000+ students in over 40 countries and is a guest lecturer delivering her curriculum, ‘Make it Sacred: Regenerating Fashion with Natural Dyes’.
Justine is the Founder and Regional Coordinator of North West England Fibreshed – a collective of professionals developing a decentralised, regenerative textile system based around the usage of ‘local fibres, local dyes and local labour’. She is one of three partner organisations on the ‘Homegrown Homespun’ flax and woad growing project in collaboration with the British Textile Biennial and social enterprise Community Clothing, who in their prototype year grew indigo linen from seed to cloth on disused urban land in Blackburn.
Social: @thewilddyery
Website: The Wild Dyery