At this year’s National Festival of Making, we launched our Homegrown/Homespun Kurta!

This garment was made using flax grown, processed and spun in Blackburn as part of the Homegrown/Homespun project working with volunteers and members of the community over the past two years, and is on display at Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery this weekend.

The yarn was spun at our Spinning and Weaving school in Blackburn Market last summer run by The Bowland Guild of Weavers and Dyers and Spinners and then woven by professional weaver Kirsty Leadbetter. The final garment has been fabricated by two of the Homegrown/ Homespun volunteer team, Kirsteen McGregor and Judith Rothwell, using a traditional design of this classic South Asian garment.

Photo – Jack Bolton

Photo – Jack Bolton