Welcome to Quetarshe (Car-ta-shay) a fiber and textiles design studio that creates textiles, and decorative arts for the home, fashion, public, theater and educational industries.
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The studio uses the research from other fields such as art history, decorative arts or architecture, and create exciting new textiles designs past and present to fit your lifestyle or project. We create new materials and techniques to create balanced aesthetics in all of the one-of a kind works of textiles/or fiber arts. Fulfilling a specific niche for specialized clientele, whether they are private, for the trade, or museum setting; each piece is a handmade original one of a kind design of textile art. This site offers the investor a new and fresh outlook on historical textiles with an Eco friendly base, contemporary themes, from the past to the present.

Sheila Melissa Palmer, Artist/Designer

Theater Set Design

Sheila M. Palmer Set Design, for stage production at Wayne State University Bonstelle Theater 2001 "Song of Jacob Zulu" was a sensation with a fiber woven organic and textile feel to the stage that had never been done before. Lighting and costume was also...

Renovated Lofts Designed

Quetarshe Studio designs a live-in/work loft for the restored eco-friendly 71 Garfield building in Detroit. This 1920’s historic building in the Sugar Hills Historic art district is comprised of recycled re-purposed with old and new fixtures! Geothermal heating, solar power...

71 Garfield Detroit

Current Projects

Sheila M. Palmer is currently working on felted prayer rugs inspired by Moor's Influence of Southern Spain 14th-17th century. This exhibition is still looking for funding and will travel from Southern Spain to the United States showing in galleries and museums.