College students have got involved in a fashion project which aims to help Lancashire 'grow its own clothes.'

Construction students from Blackburn College are getting involved in an unusual way in the Homespun/Homegrown project which is being fronted by designer and Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant.

Learners from the college’s construction and the built environment level two course have used their skills to build wooden fencing around the field where the flax will be grown for the clothing.

The purpose of the project is to take a piece of waste ground in Blackburn, clear it, plough it, plant and grow flax, woad and indigo. This will then be harvested, weaved and dyed in order to make jeans for the British Textile Biennial.

Blackburn’s Jayden Webster (18), Joe Hulley (17), Nathan Knowles (20), Oliver O’Grady (18) and Rishton’s Sydney Chapman (18) were among the students to be involved, accompanied by Blackburn College tutors Tim Coates and Craig Parkinson.

Head of technical studies at the college, Craig Midgley said: “This was a great opportunity for our construction learners to put what they have learned into practice as part of a real-life project.

"The opportunity to not only show off their skills but to work on a Patrick Grant project was too good to turn down and was one the students embraced.”

The project is also being ran by Lancashire arts commissioning group Super Slow Way and North West England Fibreshed, who will also be looking for volunteers to help with each stage of the process.

If the project is successful, it hopes to be able to present Blackburn's first homegrown pair of jeans at the British Textile Biennial in October.