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Marietta Boggio Botto

Marietta “Maria” Boggio Botto (1870-1915) was an “outwork” silk worker, who hosted the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 at her home in Haledon, New Jersey.

In 1991, she studied and helped revive the making of Wasco sally bags, twined root-digging bags, through the Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. This launched her on a new career path dedicated to the preservation of her cultural heritage.

Ida Cohen Rosenthal

Co-founder and president of the brassiere company Maidenform, Inc.

Nora Ezell

Ezell is a master of embroidery and appliqué, the process of fastening one piece of fabric to a ground fabric with tiny stitches.

Mone Saenphimmachak

Laotian-American weaver

Mozell Benson

“Her quilts are the visual equivalent of jazz or blues. She will take a basic pattern and then do variations on it just like a musician will do with a jazz piece.”

Nellie Star Boy Menard

In Sioux culture, an accomplished traditional quiltmaker is measured not only by a mastery of needlework techniques, of the creative use of the star motif, and of traditional aesthetic principles, but also by her dedication to the community in the practice of her art. Over her lifetime, Menard produced scores of quilts for traditional family and community purposes.