Saturday, June 4th: Dying Around the World with Margaret Carlberg

Margaret Carlberg is a retired chemistry teacher (Connelly
High School, Anaheim, California) where she and students
designed, planted and maintained for 20 years more than 50
garden areas on their 6-acre campus. In 1998, she and her
students became intrigued with natural plant dyes, when she
started experimented extensively with different chemical
mordants. At Coastline Community College, Orange County,
and the South Coast Weaving and Spinning Guild she learned to weave, making
scarves and shawls, purses, belts, bookmarks, and vests with her plant-dyed yarns.
She and her husband Dave moved to Santa Barbara in 2013 and she has been an
active member of the SB Fiber Arts Guild since then.

Being a chemistry teacher, Margaret loves to do experiments, and has done
natural dyeing demonstrations and small-scale workshops at the Huntington
Botanic Gardens in San Marino, at the World Weavers’ Gathering at the San Juan
Capistrano Mission, at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, the Orange County
Fair, many teachers’ workshops, and with high school, elementary school, and
college students as well as with her grandsons.