Harriet Kavanagh
1800s Irish artist, traveller, and antiquarian
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Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel was known as a textile designer within her field for decades. But it wasn’t until The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her wardrobe in 2005—13 years after she retired and well into her 80s—that she achieved broader recognition as an influential tastemaker.
Marie Webster
When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.
Yvonne Koolmatrie
Indigenous Australian artist known for her traditional weaving of items like eel traps
Margaret Porter
1800s Irish philanthropist
Florence Vere O’Brien
Irish philanthropist and craftswoman
Jessie Redding Hull
American author and speech therapist, wrote and published books for children, youth and learning-disabled adults, as well as poetry.
Uttaktuak
20th century Inuit seamstress and artist
Anna Weber
1800s American-Canadian needle-worker and fraktur artist
Christianne Morris
1800s Micmac artist and artist’s model