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Prof.
Patrice George originally studied hand weaving in Sweden,
and planned to live a rural life creating handwoven products
after finishing school. But after finding her first job as a
sample weaver for a major mill in NYC, she fell in love with
the industrial side of the textile world. She became a
specialist in computer-aided dobby and jacquard weaving,
founding her own design studio in 1979.
Her
clients have included major textile mills and manufacturers.
She has worked with the United Nations, CARE, and other
international organizations, to develop hand-woven products
in developing for developing nations, including Jamaica,
Mexico, China, Lesotho and Laos.
Patrice
received her BA degree in History of Art from the University
of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and studied traditional handweaving
at Handarbetets Vänner in Stockholm, Sweden.
She
joined FIT as an assistant professor in 2002, where she has
been teaching lecture courses in the TDM department, as well
as studio weaving classes in TSD department.
Previously, Patrice taught at the School of Visual Arts,
Parsons, and the Art Institute of NYC. She has been a guest
speaker at many textile conferences and many schools around
the world. In 1994, she was a Fulbright lecturer in textile
design at the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki,
Finland.
Articles
on Patrice's work have appeared in the New York Times, USA
Today, Personal Computing, and other national publications.
She has published articles to Handwoven Magazine, and
Textile Forum. |
