Patrice George

Patrice George was an Associate Professor in Textile Development and Marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC. Her specialties are dobby and jacquard wovens, computer-aided design, and textile history. She is currently an advisor to students in Parsons MFA Textile program, and a frequent presenter at textile seminars, and a presenter to weaver’s guilds across the country.

Her NYC studio, Patrice George Designs, specializes in design for dobby and jacquard woven textiles for the interior textiles.

She has also been a consultant to handweaving projects sponsored by UNIDO, CARE, and other NGOs in Jamaica, Laos, and Mexico.

Education: BA from the University of Michigan, History of Art, 1970. 

• Fulbright Fellowship to University of Art & Design, Helsinki, Finland 1994
• MA in Fashion and Textile History: Museum Studies from FIT, 2015

Recent presentations and workshops

• Complex Weavers Seminar 2026, Twists and Turns: Leno in Contemporary Woven Textiles
• Speaker, Innovations Through Pixels Conference, THE DIGITAL DAWN: Woven textile technologies from the PC to the August 2025, Sunvolden, Norway
• Seattle Weavers Guild May 2025: Presentations and 2-day workshop in -person workshop on Doup Leno
• CNCH 2016: Leno Structures: Weaving with Doups on 4-8 Shaft Looms. Presentation and 2-day in person workshop

TBD