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📗The Nature of Fashion, out Sep 25 with Chelsea Green Publishing 👗 Founder Fashion Revolution & League of Artisans ✍️Agent Julia Silk/Greyhound Literary 🍃Advisor Kew Gardens Material World festival
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Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

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Thrilled to announce The Nature of Fashion will be published this September with @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social! This book traces the entwined histories of textiles and plants, exploring how the threads of our past can weave our shared future. Huge thanks to @juliasreading.bsky.social & Muna Reyal.

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Polished off my bibliography for The Nature of Fashion last night and felt I was almost there. Just acknowledgements to write today, I thought. I clearly should have given them some consideration more than a day before my submission deadline. Where do you start? Or where do you stop! #amwriting

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Reading the @unccd.bsky.social Fashion and Land report on the environmental impact of fibres. The world map of fibre production, textile trade and land degradation is particularly interesting - I'd love to be able to zoom in and see this in more detail. #naturalfibres www.unccd.int/resources/pu...

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Interesting item on the shifting soils of garment production on BBC News at Ten tonight. Around 90% of garment factories in Cambodia are now Chinese-owned or Chinese-run. #whomademyclothes?

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At @kewgardens.bsky.social planning Material World festival, running 18 September for 6 weeks. Excited to be working with Kew’s Youth Forum and the local community to co-create a textile map of fibre and dye plants at Kew #plants

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On 3 February, I'll be delivering a lecture as part of the Keele University ILAS Global Challenge lecture series on Weaving Solutions: Addressing Fibre and Dye Challenges through Nature and Innovation. Available online as well as in person - sign up in the link below. www.keele.ac.uk/about/events...

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An idea for the next budget? “In the Republic of Ireland most income from writing and musical composition is tax-free – not because its government is staffed by Yeats-quoting aesthetes, but because it appreciates the hard-nosed business case.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #amwriting

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Polished off the conclusion to my book, made a batch of marmalade, walked the dog in the snow. A satisfying Sunday!

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Did you know cotton doesn't only grow white? Peru's native cotton comes in green, lilac, chestnut and beige, and there’s rumours of blue and black. When there's a palette of possibilities, why on earth do we only grow white, adding a cocktail of chemicals to give it the same hue? #sustainablefashion

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Beetling. Such a good word. One of my ancestors wrote about a beetling cliff, so I just looked up the definition. adjective (of a rock or a person's eyebrows) prominent or overhanging. "piercing eyes glittered beneath a great beetling brow". Also used for pounding fabric. #amwriting

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My husband gave me my Christmas present last night. He said I wouldn’t like it and didn’t want me to be disappointed at Christmas. He was right.

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Glad to see estate agents enjoying a bit of Christmas cheer: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... #estateagents

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What if the key to future-proofing fashion was protecting and restoring nature? #sustainablefashion #nature quantis.com/news/fashion...

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For any writers who may have been told that their style is no longer fashionable, take heart from this absolutely delightful docudrama of Barbara Pym. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #amwriting

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Standing with Shipibo-Konibo artists Sadith and Olinda Silvano and their community against the cultural appropriation of their designs. #shipibokonibo #culturalappropriation

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In the wake of the furore around designer Anis Samanez and the Shipibo-Kinibo community of Cantagallo, is it time for Peru to adopt cultural appropriation legislation to protect Indigenous communities, like Mexico? #culturalappropriation #shipibo

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Happy Thanksgiving from Jupiter, the town in Florida, although it certainly feels like another planet after England. Grateful for the opportunity to see my grandson Ambrose for the first time, who has just turned one. #thanksgiving

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Morning reading: The Bill of Rights of the Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso. Particularly loving Article 10: The nation of plants shall recognise and foster mutual aid among natural communities of living beings as an instrument of coexistence and progress. #plants

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I’m collaborating on a scientific paper on how natural fibres (coated in synthetic chemicals) aren’t biodegrading in aquatic environments. Interesting research from Winnie Courtene-Jones who I sailed with on Exxpedition on environmental risks of bio-based materials www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/bio-bas...

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👋 I’m looking forward to meeting everyone over here. A little about me: I’m writing a book on the history of plant fibres and dyes from 40,000 BCE to present. Also researching fibre shedding. I’m co-founder of Fashion Revolution, the world’s largest fashion activism movement, and League of Artisans.

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