Patricia Te Arapo Wallace is a New Zealand academic specialising in Māori traditional textiles.
Of Ngāti Porou descent, she is currently a research associate at the University of Canterbury.
[1] Wallace's PhD thesis, Traditional Maori dress : rediscovering forgotten elements of pre-1820 practice, examined the practises of textile production from the early contact period, based on an examination of artefacts in museums in New Zealand, the UK and America.
[2] This is in contrast to traditional practises in Māori textile crafts in which knowledge is developed and transmitted on the apprenticeship or teacher-student model.
[3] Wallace also edits the Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa national newsletter[3] and travels regularly to grow the understanding of Māori textile crafts.