The Nettle Dress | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
After the death of his beloved wife, textile artist Allan Brown embarks on a seven-year endeavor to weave a hand-spun dr | dG1falFOcXhlekRzSjQ
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00:00 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:03 [WATER SPLASHING]
00:05 It's like the history of the last seven years crystallized
00:09 into this material.
00:11 Seven summers, seven seasons of nettle,
00:14 seven winters of spinning.
00:16 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:19 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:21 During the whole process of doing this, my dad's died.
00:25 I was sitting by his bedside spinning nettle.
00:28 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:30 And then Alex being ill, and her dying.
00:34 Inadvertently, all that going into the thread.
00:40 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:42 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:46 [TAPPING]
00:48 So exciting.
00:49 Nettle dress, here we go.
00:51 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
00:53 [RUSTLING]
00:58 Cloth made that way must be magical somehow.
01:05 It's going to protect you.
01:06 Off she comes.
01:10 [RUSTLING]
01:13 Oh my god, I can actually feel it.
01:17 Just want to get in it.
01:20 It's going to be nice to actually shape it
01:23 to one of the children.
01:26 The love that you've put into the cloth can be worn.
01:29 What it's made from is free and forageable,
01:36 a renewable thing.
01:38 It definitely feels like there's lots of memories and love
01:42 through this whole thing.
01:43 Obviously, everything with mom, I think me and dad got much
01:46 closer.
01:47 And I feel quite invested in the whole process.
01:49 So it's nice that I can wear it and be part of it.
01:52 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
01:55 I just had no idea if it was at all possible.
02:00 There it is.
02:01 [GIGGLING]
02:05 It's like the nettles gave me this gift.
02:08 It felt like I was being transformed by the nettle
02:12 rather than the other way around.
02:13 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
02:17 (electronic music)
02:20 (electronic music)