Allan Brown’s journey has been made into a documentary film screening around the UK.
A man’s seven-year mission to make a dress out of stinging nettles foraged from nearby his home became a labour of love and healing as he grieved following his wife’s death.
During the years of crafting, his father died in 2016 before his wife Alex was diagnosed and died of cancer in 2018, but the project still gave him a sense of moving forward. Mr Howitt said the 68-minute documentary called The Nettle Dress was not part of the plan at the beginning of the experiment. The Brighton resident described while the film on one level is following the dress-making process, another is how Mr Brown uses it to grieve the losses of his father and his wife.
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