Growing my own jeans took three years and cost more than $15,000

A textiles teacher set out to make a pair of zero-emission pants. It was a lot harder than she thought it would be.

Fleur Britten

Nov 10, 2023 – 8.22am

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Justine Aldersey-Williams is talking me through her new jeans. “The rough texture on the pocket is where I had a different quality of flax plants,” she explains. “These threads kept snapping in the weaving process but now I think they add a unique feature.”