Clean tight copy, no marks or inscriptions. As New. Rachel Baker finds respite from failing health by relocating to the Luberon, France, where she forages for plants to dye vintage linens in a regenerative practice. Marjolein Hessels takes a scientific approach to dye her threads with the same plants she chooses to represent in stitch, and regular contributor Magali An Berthon introduces us to artists working at the intersection of hard and soft materials. Ilama in Argentina and Llanatura in Mallorca exploit the beauty of undyed fibre to form sustainable businesses. Karen Selik explains why wild sericulture in central and eastern India exemplifies Gandhian principles written into the Indian constitution in 1950. Designers in Mexico take on the legacy of the once-global sisal industry to find new applications for agave cactus fibre. And closer to home, in a Herculean endeavour, Allan Brown undertakes to weave a dress from foraged nettle.