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Over Cover Coat Structure

By  Anna Chrystal 2025
  • Over Cover Coat

Repurposed textiles, hand and machine stitched -

Outside of garment: Natural fibres botanically dyed with bioactive plants, some colours substantive, some fugitive. Plants used are foraged, grown or kitchen scraps: Woad, Horse Chestnut, Buddleia, Elderberry, Dock, Nettle, Hawthorn, Walnut, Onion, Avocado. 

Inside of garment: Scraps of synthetic materials taken from defunct tents and ‘Outdoor Clothing’. 

  • Seasonal Medicine Vest

Process 1. Campfire Elderberry dyebath with Deborah Lindley. 

Process 2. Ivy dyebath at SILT. 

Stick support.  

2025

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