Biography:
Textile artist Joke Schole graduated in 1985 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art.

During her study she worked at Ulf Moritz Design and followed Masterclasses with Junichi Araï.
In her early work, always on and with textile, she already showed traditional and non-traditional techniques.

she experimented with several dyes and paint on different material which resulted in innovative textile designs and structures.
The tension in the combination of color, design and material caused her to work for several manufacturers like Boussac, Texunion, Mettler France, Jenast, and also for fashion designers like Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Daniel Hechter and Cacharell.
She continued her work as an interior designer with manufacturers like
Macy’ s N.Y., Judscott, Ploegstoffen, and she made several collections for Li Edelkoort.

Her textiles where used in forcastings by the Dutch Fashion Institut, Trend Union and in several publications.

With this work she had a solo exhibition at the Dutch Textile Museum.

Together with the Innovation Center Amsterdam she made a research with mineral textile recipes for industrial and environmental purposes.
Her interest for minerals came after having worked with indigo and other natural methods.

She created big wallhangings which represented origin creatures made with rust.

Joke Schole received prices like the First Price of the Best Collection Interior Design at the Premier Vision-Paris 1987,the Outstanding Price at the Komatsu Municipal Honjin Memorial Museum- Japan with the Laquer Contest 1995,and the Dutch Cultural Ministery supported Joke Schole with two post-graduate scholarships.

For six years she worked for the Academie Voque- Amsterdam teaching Interior & Fashion Design.
Furthermore her textiles and designs were used in the redecoration of the prestigeous hotel New York-Rotterdam,in the setdressing and costumes of some Dutch feature-films.

Nowadays Joke Schole designes collections like costummade bags, special personal gifst, jewellery,illustrations and paintings.