Justine Aldersey-Williams is a regenerative clothing activist, botanical textile dyer, and founder of the Northern England Fibreshed, part of the global Fibershed movement advocating for 'local fibre, local dye, and local labour'.

For over a decade, she has taught natural fabric dyeing to thousands of students worldwide through her studio, The Wild Dyery, sharing skills that reconnect people to the land through plant-based colour.

She initiated the Homegrown Homespun community project in collaboration with fashion designer Patrick Grant and the British Textile Biennial, exploring whether jeans could be grown within the British textile heartlands. Building on this work, Justine continued to grow flax and woad, practising every stage of making a prototype pair of indigo linen jeans on British soil alongside specialist artisans. In 2023, this process-led experiment made British fashion history and was documented in the film Woman Grows Jeans, now screening across the U.K. Green Film Network of independent cinemas.

Alongside her teaching and collaborative projects, Justine is co-director of Homegrown Colour Ltd., contributing to the development of agroecological fibre and dye crops at scale, and continues to advocate for bioregional textile systems through education, research, and community-led practice.

Since 2022, Justine has offered her Growing Slow Textiles course online to an international audience. She is now rooting this work more firmly within the British agricultural system by inviting one farm each year to host the in-person iteration of her course - Clothing Ecology.