The traditional arts and crafts of Morocco represent myriad
and diverse techniques. A group of campers have been incorporating some of
these processes in a collaborative textile project, led by teaching artists Tremain
Smith and Samantha Taifi. They used resist dyeing with henna inspired by Berber
textiles to produce a contemporary visual celebration of Moroccan traditional
arts, representing each letter of the Arabic alphabet.
The project began with resist wrapping and stitching yarn
onto silk squares using beans and dental floss to produce various designs. The
campers then dyed the squares in vats of different strengths of henna. They
unwrapped their squares to reveal unique designs and patterns created as a result
of the dyeing process. Next campers used basic felting and embroidery
techniques to embellish their squares with a letter of the Arabic alphabet in
wool and yarn. Now the campers are in the process of adhering all the squares
together to create a complete Arabic alphabet in textile form. 
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