Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn
South African anti-apartheid activist
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Emma Mashinini
South African trade unionist and writer
Ellen Bushell
Irish silk weaver, usher and political activist
Bertha Mkhize
South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.
Catherine Evans Whitener
Catherine Evans Whitener revived the handcraft technique of tufting in the 1890s near Dalton, Georgia.
Anna Helfgott
Anna Helfgott was a vigorous activist for progressive causes and a leader in Seattle’s Gray Panthers. In her working years she was a dressmaker and fitter, and was an early member of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU).
Mary Crovatt Hambidge
The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, founded by artist Mary Crovatt Hambidge, is an artists’ community situated on 600 acres of pristine, natural forests, woodlands, and streams of the north Georgia (US) mountains.
Elsa Vick Shaw
Cleveland artist especially noted for her work in design
Selene Corlett
Milliner and dressmaker who organized a training school which prepared 260 women to work in hospitals, factories, at the American Red Cross, and on streetcars during WWI.
Renee So
Artist whose sculpture and ‘knitted paintings’ explore colonial legacies, male authority and women’s bodies