Pat Pauly

Pat Pauly

With works that carry a graphic, color-saturated palette using her hand printed fabric, Pat Pauly’s fiber art is seen around the world. Her textile work began in the early 1980s and was first accepted in Quilt National ’83, and has continued being shown in major exhibitions. Her fiber art’s distinction is with using a strong abstraction of natural forms and complex color combinations. Her work is in both private and public collections.

With a degree in art, and graduate work in design and fine art, Pat chose fiber art as the perfect amalgam of construction, painting and printmaking. She has taught throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, in design and surface design. Her lectures are fast paced, funny, and often speak on the intersection of traditional quilt arts with contemporary fiber art. She brings the same pace and relaxed atmosphere to her workshops.

Often seen in exhibitions, Pat’s work is also widely published, and she has appeared in Quilting Arts televised segments. If not teaching, she is found in her studio in Rochester, New York where she has the best advantage of being surrounded by great artists as well as the beauty of the Finger Lakes.

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Workshop: Glorious Prints!

Materials Fee $75 payable to Pat while at class. (PayPal, credit card, check, Venmo, cash)

Skill level: All, with basic experience with dyes helpful, but not required

Materials: dyes, chemicals and supplies are provided with a materials fee of $75 payable in class to Pat Pauly (Venmo, credit, Paypal, check, cash)

This class is a great introduction to printing fabric with thickened dyes, as well as a class for those who have experience using this medium. Time is given for individual guidance, as well as to experiment with patterning, motif, color and scale. We’ll use dozens of ways to print gorgeous cloth.

You’ll learn the printing fabric with thickened dye with in-depth techniques such as monoprinting, stamping, silkscreen, and stenciling. Learn to use layers, color mixing and color theory. Uncover the magic of printing with dyes to print one-of-a-kind glorious fabric you can use for quilting, textile art, or apparel.

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