She founded Patrice George Designs in 1979, a textile studio in NYC specializing in design for dobby and jacquard woven textiles for the interior textile industry. Patrice is also a consultant to handweaving projects sponsored by UNIDO, CARE, and other NGO’s in Jamaica, Laos, and Mexico. In 1970 she received a BA in History of Art from the University of Michigan and in May of 2015 she received her MA in Fashion and Textile History: Museum Studies, at the Fashion Institute of Technology.