Sandrine Rozier

A graduate of Institut Français de la Mode, Sandrine Rozier is a costume and textile designer for the performing arts. She learned about natural dyeing from professionals in the field and has taken part in International Symposiums and Exhibitions on Natural Dyes in India, Korea, France and Madagascar. Sandrine Rozier is committed to promoting natural dyes and has introduced their use at Académie Fratellini and Opéra Comique in Paris, as well as Festival International d’Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence. She has trained others in how to use natural dyes at GRETA de la Création, du Design et des Métiers d’Arts in Paris, Théâtre Humain Trop Humain in Montpellier and Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie in Aubusson.

Drawing on an existing network of master dyers, Sandrine Rozier set out to revisit the ancestral science of extracting dyes from plants native to different regions of Japan, in the light of modern-day chemistry. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, she studied plants’ capacity to dye textiles as well as noting their medicinal virtues.

Over the course of her residency, Sandrine Rozier explored the link between plants and the sensoriality of colour. She also planned to draw up a repertoire of colours and develop ways to make Japanese natural dyeing techniques more widely known.