Barbara Teague is a textile and surface designer with hand painting, computer and illustrator skills.

After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in Graphic Design, Barbara worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Textile Study Room.  At that time she went to the Fashion Institute of Technology at night for Textile Design.  She became a freelance artist for thirty years hand painting designs.  She was commissioned by top New York home decor companies like F. Schumacher, Bloomcraft, Spring Mills, Martex, Wamsutta, WestPoint Home, Hinson & Company, Greef, Scalamandré, Imperial Wallcoverings, Braemore, P. Kaufmann Fabrics, C.R. Gibson, Martha Stewart, and many others. Barbara was known to many as the “queen of documents” designing printed fabrics from collections at Winterthur, the Museé des Arts Décoratif, Williamsburg, Scalamandré and the NY Design Library for Abrams.

Reinventing herself Barbara went back to FIT for a second time to learn computer aided design. She continued to get commission work from Braemore Fabrics using the computer to design patterns for Vera Bradley bags and Home Furnishings.  Later she was hired full time to work for Komar designing prints for sleepwear brands they own or license with: Carole Hochman, Komar Sleepwear, Lucky, Jockey, and most recently with LAUREN/Ralph Lauren.

Barbara lives in Midtown Manhattan.  She has also done research at Cooper Hewitt for an architectural firm doing ceiling detail which she laid out for a mid-west house in the style of Versailles.  She has enjoyed doing reproductions and restoration of antique textile designs for Schumacher and Abrams. She has also illustrated a Wallpaper Book for Hinson and Company. She is now busy painting mostly florals in oil on canvas.