Nettles For Textiles member Sally Pointer kindly shares her process of making coil basket from nettle.

Coil baskets are a great way to make use of the strength and flexibility of nettles without going to the lengths of fully processing for fine fibres.

View the Pdf of the process here: PDF Link

From Sting to Spin. Gillian Edom (2019)

The wait is over! The second edition of “From Sting to Spin” is now available.

We have created a little website with more details about the book, a few chapter previews and how to purchase it.
The web address is https://gillianedomsbook.blogspot.com.

I hope you will enjoy browsing the website and learning a bit more about my book From Sting to Spin (2nd edition, 2019).

Happy browsing!

A short film demonstrating how to extract strong, fine fibres from ‘green’ nettle plants to create thread. It also looks back into time and explores how our Neolithic ancestors may have been processing nettles to extract fibre for textiles. Allan processes the green nettles ‘wet’, i.e. directly or very shortly after collecting.

You’ve seen the video(s), now you can read in detail the various processes that Allan uses in order transform nettles into textiles too.
The document is still evolving, any comments let us know 🙂

Allan Brown_NettleProcessing.pdf

If you would like to use any parts of this document, please check with Allan and cite as follows:
Brown, Allan. NETTLES FOR TEXTILES (2017), www.nettlesfortextiles.org.uk

Hot off the press: Allan has been featured on ‘A tactile life’, a website that brings together  a ‘community of makers and hands-on humans’

Read the inspiring stories of our ever-growing community of makers and hands-on humans, and find out how to support their work
or begin your own journey towards developing your unique crafts and a tactile way of life.

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