Kindred Cloth Collective
Welcome to Kindred Cloth Collective.
We are a fashion commons community in Guildford, growing natural dye plants, repairing clothes, and reconnecting people through shared learning and care for the land.
What is a fashion commons?
Resource Sharing
A fashion commons is built around a shared resource. At Kindred Cloth Collective, this resource is our dye garden, where plants, land, knowledge, and traditions are shared collectively. By growing dye plants together and using them to redye clothing, we explore how fashion can move away from extraction and overproduction, and towards care, reuse, and localised fashion systems that are connected with place and respect in the local environment.
Community Powered
Community and shared values is what powers a fashion commons. Our community brings together growers, makers, dyers, volunteers, and local organisations who contribute their skills, curiosity, and lived experience.
Through workshops, shared labour, and open conversations, the community shapes the direction of this project by creating space where learning, wellbeing, and belonging sit at the heart of fashion practice.
Regenerative Practices
Regenerative fashion looks beyond sustainability and focuses on giving back to the land, the environment, communities, and preserving traditions that are passed down.
By working from soil to cloth, our fashion commons explores natural dyeing, repair, and slow-making alternatives to fast fashion systems that are linear. These practices encourage care for living systems, extend the life of clothing, and imagine fashion futures that are rooted in the regeneration and protection of wildlife spaces.
For Sustainable Fashion Week 2025, we hosted our first natural dyeing workshop and dye garden tour, open to the public to explore regenerative fashion practices. Participants learned how we organically grow dye plants in Guildford and how these plants are processed to create beautiful bundle-dyed textiles, producing unique eco-prints.
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Natural dyeing workshop at Rosamund Community Garden Guildford
Ecoprinting clothing workshop
Natural dyeing workshop at Rosamund Community Garden Guildford
Stories, reflections, and research from a live fashion commons exploring how community led practices can regenerate fashion, place, and people.
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Mending Circle
Date: 12th Jan 2026, 19:00 – 21:00
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Join us for our regular Mending Circle. As usual, bring any items of clothing that you want to repair or need help repairing in a friendly, social environment.
Tea and coffee provided.
Donations to the charity are welcome
Please note: this is not a 'drop off your garment' event
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Address:
ZERO, Unit 1 Riverside Business Centre, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford GU1 4UG, UK
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