Contact
Email: mollygreyritter@gmail.com
Phone: (302)562-5135

Relevant Experience

Valdese Weavers, Valdese, NC — Design and Marketing Associate [February 2020 — Present]

  • Manage contract textile collections; involved in creative ideation, product development, responsible for creating and producing trend sheets, design presentation materials for sales team, style photography and select images for all digital marketing and website, management reporting, support sales team, assist in overseeing sampling

  • Design woven textiles from creative brief, select yarns, create digital weave files, tweak woven samples

  • Create colorways for new and existing textiles

  • Assist sales team with client meetings at Pre-Market, High Point Market and ITA Showtime

Alexander Julian Inc., Chapel Hill, NC — Intern [September 2017 — March 2018]

  • Assisted in design process for fall/winter 2018/2019 menswear collection

  • Organized and digitally catalogued fabric samples

  • Used Kaledo Weave software to translate design sketches into woven designs

M.Grey Designs, Wilmington, DE — Founder and Designer [Summer 2015 — Summer 2019]

  • Designed textiles from digital files of my original artwork

  • Designed products including bowties, hand-painted cards, and seasonal wrapping paper

  • Created a supply chain of small-run manufacturers to make the products

  • Constructed and maintained online storefront for direct sales and offered a bulk order, custom product service

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [Graduated May 2019]

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French and Francophone Studies, Minor in Studio Art

Phi Beta Kappa, GPA 3.9

  • Member of Women’s Club Lacrosse team; designed team apparel

  • French National Honor Society

Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Lyon, France [August — December 2018]

Diplôme d’Études Universitaires Françaises, 6 Courses

  • Language immersion in all classes and with French host family

  • Explored Lyon’s silk-weaving history at Musée des Tissus, Maison des Canuts and L’Atelier de Soierie

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island [Summer 2017, Summer 2018]

Textile Summer Institute, 3 Courses, GPA 3.9

Digitally Printed Fabrics: Infinite Surface Design

  • Project to create a collection of printed fabrics using Mimaki fabric printer

  • Integrated hand-crafted designs with design technology using Adobe Photoshop, and NedGraphics

Color Through Materials

  • Developed color perception and application through study of color theories, media and materials

  • Techniques included block printing, stenciling, monoprinting, fabric collage and fabric sculpture

Weaving: Pattern, Structure + Form in Nature

  • Learned to weave on a 4-harness handloom; applied a variety of weave structures and materials

Haywood Community College, Clyde, NC [October — November 2019]

Professional Crafts: Fiber Department; Intermediate / Advanced Weaving: Floor Loom

  • Learned to read and create weave drafts

  • Created a hand-woven silk and alpaca double-weave scarf on an 8-harness floor loom

Skills

Office

  • Proficient in Mac OS, Windows OS, Microsoft OS

Design Software

  • Proficient in Adobe Photoshop

  • Proficient in Adobe Illustrator

  • Experience with EAT Design Scope

  • Experience with NedGraphics

Languages

  • Fluent in French