Clothing entrepreneur, designer and television personality Patrick Grant is backing a community textile project in Blackburn that aims to prove that locally made apparel from locally grown textiles and natural dyestuff is still possible in the UK in 2021. Homegrown Homespun is a regenerative fashion project that has grown out of a wider arts programme in this part of northern England called Super Slow Way. In spring 2021, with the support of Patrick Grant, volunteers cleared an area of land in Blackburn and began growing flax on it, leaving space for woad and other plants that can provide natural dyes.

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