June Guild Meeting

 Saturday, June 4th: Dying Around the World with Margaret CarlbergMargaret Carlberg is a retired chemistry teacher (ConnellyHigh School, Anaheim, California) where she and studentsdesigned, planted and maintained for 20 years more than 50garden areas on their 6-acre campus. In 1998, she and herstudents became intrigued with natural plant dyes, when shestarted experimented extensively with different chemicalmordants. At Coastline Community College, Orange County,and the South Coast Weaving and Spinning Guild she learned to weave, makingscarves 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 anactive member of the SB Fiber Arts Guild since then.Being a chemistry teacher, Margaret loves to do experiments, and has donenatural dyeing demonstrations and small-scale workshops at the HuntingtonBotanic Gardens in San Marino, at the World Weavers' Gathering at the San JuanCapistrano Mission, at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, the Orange CountyFair, many teachers' workshops, and with high school, elementary school, andcollege students as well as with her grandsons.