About

Michelle Pereira Studio

Michelle Pereira has been designing textiles, apparel and home accessories since 1997.

For the last couple years she has been focusing her work mainly on surface design, creating a luxury fabric line. “I am very interested how people (the interior designer) tranform my fabric into something inspired.”.

Michelle Pereira celebrates ancient traditions of textile design with her hand printed textile line of silk and cotton velvets and Belgium linens. She draws her inspiration mostly from Nature – its patterns, its organic nature, and its color contrasts both subtle and extreme.

The old world characteristics of her horticultural and geometric designs are created by hand printing and painting custom crafted woodblocks in the artisan’s tradition. Her tiger stripe patterning adapts an ancient Japanese Shibori technique in which the velvet is sewn and folded onto cylindrical forms before dying, painting or bleaching.

Pereira’s fabrics and accessories have been sold in high-end boutiques across the country such as Henri Bendel, Fred Segal, and Wilkes Bashford. Her work has been featured in several publications and seen on the HBO Television series, 6 Feet Under, and television pilot, All About Joan, starring Joan Cusack.