Friday 27 November 2026 | 10:00-16:00
Masterclass | €120 incl. lunch
NOOF, Torenallee 22-06, Strijp-S Eindhoven

From raw fibre to your own hand-spun yarn, in one day.

This masterclass introduces you to the craft and knowledge of hand spinning. Through history, demonstration and guided experimentation, you discover how fibre, tools and twist come together to form yarn.

It connects traditional textile knowledge with the future of fashion. By reconsidering the relationship between material, time and craftsmanship, you explore how an age-old technique can inform regenerative materials, circularity and a more material-conscious design culture.

The day

• 10:00 The history of spinning: from takli and charkha to the treadle wheel, and Gandhi’s use of spinning as a symbol of self-reliance

• 10:30 Understanding fibres: wool, cotton, linen and alpaca, with hands-on carding and pre-drafting

• 11:15 The fundamentals: drafting, twist, and S-twist and Z-twist, on a drop spindle or petite charkha

• 12:30 Lunch

• 13:15 Tools and yarn structure, including an introduction to plying a balanced two-ply yarn

• 14:15 Creative spinning: design your own yarn with fibre blends, colour and texture

• 15:30 Finishing, labelling, skeining and a closing reflection on slow craft in contemporary fashion

You’ll leave with
Your own hand-spun yarn samples, a working knowledge of fibres and twist, and a new perspective on the value of slow craft.

For who
Open to all. No experience needed. The masterclass is accessible to beginners, with room for experimentation and reflection for those with more experience.

Language
English

Included
Lunch, all fibres and tools.

About Akash Kumar
Akash Kumar is a regenerative designer, researcher and educator from Bokaro, Jharkhand, India, based in The Hague, and an ECO Fellow at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Growing up in a farming family, he developed an intimate relationship with the land and the knowledge passed on through generations of hands-on practice. His work moves between craft, ecology, material culture and pedagogy, and explores how inherited skills and land-based traditions can inform more reciprocal ways of living and making. Through material experimentation and collective workshops, he creates spaces where traditional knowledge and contemporary design meet, challenge and transform one another.
Instagram: @akash_badal_

4 Thursdays: 5, 12, 19 and 26 November 2026 | 18:00-21:00
Masterclass series, 4 sessions | €450
NOOF, Torenallee 22-06, Strijp-S Eindhoven

Indigo as a living colour system, from seed to vat to ink.

Indigo is more than a blue pigment. It’s a living process that connects plants, chemistry, textiles and traditional knowledge. Over four evenings, Roua Atelier takes you through the full journey: from growing plants and extracting pigment to building and caring for a living dye vat, creating patterns, and turning an exhausted vat into natural inks.

You won’t just learn to dye textiles blue. You’ll learn to read a vat, recognise when it’s healthy, respond when it needs attention and keep it alive over time. It’s a practical skill set and a new perspective on natural colour within a circular, regenerative textile system.

The series

1 | Understanding Indigo: From Plant to Pigment
Thursday 5 November
Indigo-producing plants, their cultivation and harvest, how pigment develops and how it’s extracted. The chemistry behind indigo, the different types of vat, and make your own vat.

2 | Living with Indigo: Dyeing and Maintaining the Vat
Thursday 12 November
How different natural fibres respond to indigo, with dyeing, layering and overdyeing. Above all: how to care for a vat, read its signs and troubleshoot, so you work with it rather than just use it.

3 | Indigo Patterns: Resist, Batik and Experimental Techniques
Thursday 19 November
Shibori, folding, binding, wax resist and batik, combined with contemporary textile design methods to create your own patterns and textures.

4 | Beyond Blue: From Exhausted Vat to Natural Ink
Thursday 26 November
Pigment recovery, ink-making recipes, applications and fixing methods. The series closes with a regenerative view on waste, material life cycles and circular colour.

For who
Textile and fashion professionals, designers, artists, dye enthusiasts, and teachers who want to bring natural dyeing into their classroom. Some affinity with textiles helps, but no dyeing experience is required.

Good to know

• The ticket covers all four sessions.

• Indigo stains. Wear clothes that can take it.

Included
Materials, plants and fibres

About Roua Atelier
Roua Atelier is an Amsterdam-based textile design and development studio founded by Roua, a textile designer, developer and natural dye specialist. The atelier develops natural colours, pigments, inks and dyeing methods, bringing together traditional craftsmanship, contemporary design and industrial production. Working closely with growers, farmers and designers, Roua Atelier explores how natural dyeing can move beyond craft and contribute to real change in the textile industry, through research, collaboration and education.
Instagram: @rouatelieramsterdam

Sat 7 + Sun 8 November 2026 | 10:00-16:00
Weekend masterclass | €250 incl. lunch
NOOF, Torenallee 22-06, Strijp-S Eindhoven

Nadie Borggreve teaches you how she dyes yarn in her own studio: with acid dyes, and without following the classic rules. On Sunday you use the yarns you dyed yourself to make a small punch needle piece, based on a photo of a flower you bring.

You go home with your own work and a dyeing technique you can keep experimenting with.

Programme
Saturday 7 Nov: wool dyeing
Sunday 8 Nov: punch needle

Bring

• A photo of a flower for inspiration. Need ideas? Nadie regularly posts flowers on Instagram: @nadieborggreve

Included
Lunch on both days
Materials

For who
Everyone who wants to learn how to dye wool and work with colour, and play with it on a punch needle piece. No experience needed.

About Nadie Borggreve
Nadie makes wall tapestries rooted in a longing for nature: forests, flowers, stars reflected in lakes. Their shapes recall gothic windows, with wool in place of stained glass, and you look through them as if looking out. She dyes every yarn by hand and works with tufting, intarsia knitting and her own dye processes. She mostly uses natural, second-hand materials, so the history of the fabric stays in the work. The flowers she photographs on walks through parks and gardens come back in her tapestries and oil pastel drawings.

Saturday 28 November 2026 | 10:00-16:00
Masterclass | €120 incl. lunch
NOOF, Torenallee 22-06, Strijp-S Eindhoven

Bring a worn-out garment or accessory and turn it into a wearable work of art.

Inspired by the Japanese kintsugi technique, (W)HOLE celebrates the beauty of decay. Wear and tear isn’t hidden. It’s emphasised and made valuable.

Since 2020, textile designer Anneleen Bertels and master goldsmith Lindsey Fontijn have been building a dialogue between textile and metal. They reinvent the centuries-old craft of goldwork embroidery as a contemporary language: jewellerised textiles. With (W)HOLE they apply it to repair, turning damage into a place for care and meaning. Each repair holds a handmade jewellery bead, combining fragile fabric with durable precious metal.

The day

• Introduction to their work and their vision on combining (precious) metals with textile

• With Lindsey: make your own metal elements

• With Anneleen: learn the embroidery techniques to work them into your garment as a visible repair

• Work on your own piece, using thread and Japanese silver and gold threads that Anneleen also uses in her own work

Bring

• A garment or accessory you want to repair

• Optional: old metal pieces you’d like to work in, like brooches or medals

Included
Lunch
Materials

For who
Everyone who’s interested in craft, materials and the memories textile carries. No experience needed.

About (W)HOLE
Textile designer Anneleen Bertels and master goldsmith Lindsey Fontijn. Instagram: @whole.textiles, @anneleen.bertels and @lindsey.fontijn