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NATURAL DYE COLORS OF EUROPE: DYE + MORDANT = PAINT with Elin Noble

In-Person, LIVE 2-day Workshop
Skill Level: Beginner to Advanced

Saturday / Sunday, September 6 & 7, 2025
10:00 – 16:00 with a lunch break
WSNF’s SlowFiberStudios Annex, 1825 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA

$320 / $285 Member
(Member’s Dashboard: discount code | Become a Member)
A $20 Materials Fee in cash will be collected on behalf of the instructor.
A Student Supplies List describing what to bring will be provided upon registration.

Open Studio for Independent work:
Monday, September 8, 2025
10:00 – 13:00
$30 donation for non-member students (cash or check collected on site)
Free for WSNF member students

Explore an exciting method of painting and printing on textiles that has fewer steps than traditional natural dye methods. The dye extracts and mordants are mixed together, making a dye paint that is ready to apply directly to the cloth using hand-applied printing and painting techniques.

Once dry, the cloth is steamed for color permanence.

The color palette is limitless, the process is direct, and the results dynamic.

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Our Instructor

We are thrilled to welcome Elin Noble to our Berkeley studio in August as our 2025 Summer Artist in Residence. Elin is an internationally recognized master dyer and artist as well as author.

Decades of meticulous work and research on dyes and resist dyeing techniques let Elin “think like a dye.” She says, “We may want a dye to behave a certain way, but it’s not about us. It’s about the dye.” Elin studied in France with our master natural dye phytochemist, botanist, and historian, Michel Garcia, and later with a Danish dye chemist, Joy Boutrup.

Elin built her knowledge from a practical understanding of dye chemistry and an artist’s curiosity to explore her materials to the fullest. Her approach is well-organized, with attention to detail, patience, and the ability to embrace surprises.

Elin’s trademark style is to dye large swaths of fabric as if painting–adding and subtracting dyes, layering, and building.

Elin is offering two additional workshops while in Berkeley:
Indigo & Clay Resist Dyeing on Saturday / Sunday, August 16 & 17, 2025
Natural Dye Colors of Europe: Making a Color Blanket on Saturday / Sunday, August 23 & 24, 2025

www.elinnoble.com

For more information, please email
info[at]shibori.org