For her the pattern began in high school, she said, when she felt she had to belong to the right clubs and take up the right sports to get into the right college.
Lulu de Kwiatkowski, a New York textile designer known for her geometric patterns on fabrics and wallpapers, has designed a group of 20-inch-square "tattooed" leather pillows for Elite Leather.
While Kusama, now 89 years old, is best known for her dense patterns of polka dots and nets, pumpkins have also featured in her works.
With her wallpapers for the German firm of Rasche and her patterns for Rosenthal ceramics, Lucienne was one of Britain's rare international stars.
She also shares her patterns for others to replicate.
Jigsaws are one of her favourite pastimes and were the starting point for her memoir The Pattern in the Carpet, a hybrid book subtitled "A Personal History with Jigsaws", written mainly as a distraction while Holroyd was seriously ill a few years ago.
She walked up to the bellhop, but, instead of entering the building (he had opened the door for her) tapped a pattern against the glass.
Amy Helfand, a textile designer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, who is known for her ebullient floral patterns, has taken a tempestuous detour with Intention Is Everything, right, one of the three rugs in a new collection called This Moment.
Oklahoma-born quilt designer Meg Callahan, 27, takes inspiration for her intricate geometric patterns from the big skies of the American West.
As their two-day workshop began, participant Chantelle Driggers stood at the back of the workshop space cautiously measuring her black fabric and placing the pattern for her jumpsuit neatly across the space before cutting.
