Maï Aboucaya is a Paris-based textile artist and designer with a BA in textile design, majoring in printing and weaving. Her practice spans hand-painted patterns, embroidery, weaving, and textile mending.
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Maï Aboucaya is a Paris-based textile artist and designer with a BA in textile design, majoring in printing and weaving. Her practice spans hand-painted patterns, embroidery, weaving, and textile mending. She is drawn to traditional craft techniques and antique textile-making across cultures, with a focus on conservation and restoration. Her pattern work uses crayons, watercolours, and oil sticks.
Aboucaya's patterns are hand-painted with a handmade, artisanal quality. Selected Instagram pattern images suggest organic, gestural surface work informed by traditional textile traditions rather than digital design conventions. Her aesthetic bridges fine craft and decorative surface.
Hand-painted patterns using crayons, watercolours, and oil sticks. Embroidery and weaving for her mending practice. Printing and dyeing from her textile design education. Artisanal, multi-technique approach throughout.
No documented commercial clients or licensing. Her practice appears studio-oriented and artisanal. She also operates a textile mending atelier (@lesjolistrous).
BA in textile design with major in printing and weaving. Developed a parallel textile mending practice (conservation and restoration-focused) alongside her pattern and material work. Based in Paris.
Hand-painted surface patterns using mixed traditional media. The portfolio features expressive, organic motif work with a craft-led sensibility. Her pattern practice sits within a broader textile arts and conservation practice.
Maï Aboucaya is a Paris-based textile artist and designer with a BA in textile design, majoring in printing and weaving. Her practice spans hand-painted patterns, embroidery, weaving, and textile mending.
Style and Aesthetic Aboucaya's patterns are hand-painted with a handmade, artisanal quality. Selected Instagram pattern images suggest organic, gestural surface work informed by traditional textile traditions rather than digital design conventions. Her aesthetic bridges fine craft and decorative surface.
Pattern Focus Hand-painted surface patterns using mixed traditional media. The portfolio features expressive, organic motif work with a craft-led sensibility. Her pattern practice sits within a broader textile arts and conservation practice.
Markets and Clients No documented commercial clients or licensing. Her practice appears studio-oriented and artisanal. She also operates a textile mending atelier (@lesjolistrous).
Techniques and Tools Hand-painted patterns using crayons, watercolours, and oil sticks. Embroidery and weaving for her mending practice. Printing and dyeing from her textile design education. Artisanal, multi-technique approach throughout.
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Career Path BA in textile design with major in printing and weaving. Developed a parallel textile mending practice (conservation and restoration-focused) alongside her pattern and material work. Based in Paris.
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