Textile artist Elin Noble, creator of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery exhibition installation "Vox Stellarum" currently on view in the east campus gallery, will present a three-day workshop titled Folds for Clamp-Dye Resist, Sept. 14-17, in the Home Economics Building. The workshop will be held in the surface design studios, location of the Nebraska Fiberarts Initiative, a newly launched craft education program of the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design. The workshop is open to the UNL campus community as well as the public-at-large. Detailed information and online registration is available at:
http://cehs.unl.edu/textilegallery/folds-clamp-dye-resist-dye/
Noble, the award-winning author of "Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric," holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in fiber from the University of Washington, and over several decades has built an extensive portfolio of exhibitions, classes, lectures and television appearances. She was formerly lab manager at PRO Chemical & Dye in Fall River, MA, and has appeared on PBS. Noble has lectured and conducted workshops across North America and internationally, most recently in Tilburg, Netherlands. She has been nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award by "Professional Quilter Magazine," and she won the Quilts Japan Prize at Quilt National ’13 in Athens, Ohio. A recipient of a 2011 Artists Fellowship Finalist Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, her work has been included in numerous national and international exhibitions. Vox Stellarum remains on view in the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery through Sept. 16.
Folds for Clamp-Dye Resist will explore the many variations of a Japanese dyeing process known as itajime shibori, or clamp-resist dyeing. This technique is based on the use of wooden boards held on either side of accordion folded cloth, then dyed. This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of how the different folds, and the shape, size and placement of the wooden boards, influence the overall pattern. At least fifteen different folds will be demonstrated as workshop participants use Procion MX fiber reactive dyes on silk and cellulose fibers to creatively exploit the tension between control and accident that defines how itajime shibori leads to unexpected and highly complex fabric patternings.
Noble's workshop and the Nebraska Fiberarts Initiative are supported in part by a grant from the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation and by additional underwriting from the Friends of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery and the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design in the College of Education and Human Sciences.
Registration is limited to fifteen participants. The workshop is designed for all skill levels and the dye processes that participants will learn can be used in everything from apparel to quilts to home decor. For additional information please phone the department at 402-472-2911.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/bzwu