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About Pamela Palma
Pamela Palma is a artist and designer whose beginnings forecasted the development of her exquisite woven artwork of today.
Ms. Palma holds a bachelor of science in design from SUNY College at Buffalo, with a major of fibers, and fashion.
Background: Ms. Palma began playing with textiles as a very young girl. The medium came very easily to her and she has always enjoyed it. She learned to knit, sew, and embroider from her mother, grandmother and aunts. Ms. Palma began by making doll clothes, embroidering trousseau items and knitting scarves. By the age of 13, she was designing and making her own clothes from commercial patterns. She then progressed to designing her own sweater patterns and knitting them up on cold nights. In college, Ms. Palma discovered that weaving came naturally from her fingers and that she was in her element at the loom.
In the course of 16 years as a professional designer, Ms. Palma developed her own techniques for dyeing the yarn that she weaves. This gives her pieces a lively, colorful appearance. Color interaction coupled with marvelous, textural natural fibers, enhanced by exotic novelty yarns are her signature. Each piece she creates is different from the next. The process consumes anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks to create the woven fabric. Apparel and accessory items require diligence and painstaking attention to detail to produce couture level merchandise.
Influences in her designs can be found in the landscapes of places she has lived and loved: the mystical serenity of New Mexico’s high desert mountains and mesas; the tropical oasis of Miami Beach and the Florida Keys. Each piece is a work of original art to wear.
In addition to wearables, Ms. Palma designs home accessory items for specialty shops such as throws, pillows, and tapestries.
Ms. Palma is currently a resident artist at the South Florida Art Center on prestigious Lincoln Road in Miami Beach where she continues her tradition to explore more avenues of design possibilities. Recent endeavors include weaving non-traditional materials such as shredded $100 dollar bills and weaving MRI film into her tapestries.