FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Yes. I am addicted to Trade Journals about Science and the Home Decor Industry. I am current on all the new innovations. I also have delved heavily into marketing and Social Media. I have also maintained my business/vendor/client contacts.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
Always had an interest in Textiles and weaving. My mother-in-law had a Scandia Down Comforter Store which we took independent. Rebranded Arrelle Fine Linens as a couture linen shop. New business concept (at the time) using vignettes and private trunk shows. When you own a small business, you wear a lot of hats. Whatever needed doing was my job. This business was the marriage of my interests and heritage.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
As a chemist, I was assigned projects which involved crating novel materials with particular surface characteristics (First ten layers of atoms). Experimental design, analysis and reporting results. As an Interior Designer: Creating customized embroideries, prints and fabric of the highest caliber Egyptian Cotton, Modal, Lyocell,