Albeck, (Judith) Patricia [Pat] (1930–2017), textile designer, was born on 17 March 1930 at 33 Linnaeus Street, Hull, Yorkshire, the youngest of four daughters of Jewish immigrants, Max Albeck (1889/90–1960), furrier, and his wife Sarah, née Freedman...
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Albeck, (Judith) Patricia [Pat] (1930–2017), textile designer
Christine Boydell
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Barron, (Mabel) Phyllis (1890–1964), designer and textile printer
Barley Roscoe
Barron, (Mabel) Phyllis (1890–1964), designer and textile printer, was born on 19 March 1890 in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, the younger of two daughters of Walter Barron and his wife, Alice Maud Marguerite, formerly Clark, of Taplow House, Taplow. She was to describe her family as '...
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Blow, Sandra Betty (1925–2006)
Maker: Roger Mayne
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Sandra Betty Blow (1925–2006) by Roger Mayne, 1966 © Roger Mayne / National Portrait Gallery, London
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Blow, Sandra Betty (1925–2006), painter and collagist
Mel Gooding
Blow, Sandra Betty (1925–2006), painter and collagist, was born on 14 September 1925, at 64 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London, the only daughter of Jacob (Jack) Blow, a fruit wholesaler at Spitalfields market in Shoreditch, and his wife, Leah (Lily), née Rubinstein. She was of Jewish descent. Her brothers, ...
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Bury St Edmunds, Mabel of (fl. 1239–1256), embroiderer
Kay Staniland
Bury St Edmunds, Mabel of (fl. 1239–1256), embroiderer, is known to have been an embroiderer of ecclesiastical vestments directly commissioned by Henry III in the years 1239–44. Evidence for these commissions is to be found in the close and liberate rolls in a succession of payments for work in progress, for materials, or for work completed....
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Clapham [née McVitie], Emily Maria (1857–1952), couturier
Susan Capes
Clapham [née McVitie], Emily Maria (1857–1952), couturier, was born at 59 St Paul Street North, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 22 December 1857, the eldest daughter in the family of at least two daughters and one son of Walter McVitie (1829–1874), a painter and house decorator, and his wife, ...
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Clein [Cleyn], Francis [formerly Franz Klein] (d. 1658), painter and tapestry designer
Wendy Hefford
Clein [Cleyn], Francis [formerly Franz Klein] (d. 1658), painter and tapestry designer, was born at Rostock in Germany, possibly the son of a goldsmith, Hans Klein. Apart from date of birth and parentage, Clein's life up to 1642–3, when details seem to have been obtained from ...
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Cobb, John (c. 1715–1778), cabinet-maker and upholsterer
Geoffrey Beard
Cobb, John (c. 1715–1778), cabinet-maker and upholsterer, is presumably the person of that name put as apprentice in 1729 to Tim Money, a Norwich upholsterer (Boyd MSS). The Norfolk connection is feasible on account of Cobb's bequeathing in 1778 the interest realized on ...
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Collier, Susan Jane (1938–2011), textile designer
Anna Buruma
Collier, Susan Jane (1938–2011), textile designer, was born on 12 October 1938 at York House, Brooks Drive, Altrincham, Cheshire, the eldest of three children of Henry Oswald Jackson (Harry) Collier (1912–1983), physiologist and pharmacologist, and his wife, Irene Marjorie (Rene), née Ritcher (1910–1987)...
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Coronio [née Ionides], Aglaia (1834–1906), embroiderer, bookbinder, and art patron
Linda Parry
Coronio [née Ionides], Aglaia (1834–1906), embroiderer, bookbinder, and art patron, was the second child and elder daughter of Alexander Ionides (1810–1890) and his wife, Euterpe, née Sgouta (b. 1816), who was described in George Du Maurier's novel Trilby (1894) as '...
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Crane, Sir Francis (c. 1579–1636), courtier and tapestry manufacturer
Wendy Hefford
Crane, Sir Francis (c. 1579–1636), courtier and tapestry manufacturer, is first recorded in 1606. His name does not appear in registers of admissions to Oxford, Cambridge, or the inns of court until 1619, when he was admitted to Gray's Inn. A memorial tablet in the church at ...
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Day, (Désirée) Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie (1917–2010)
Maker: John Gay
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(Désirée) Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day (1917–2010) by John Gay, 1950s © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Day [née Conradi], (Désirée) Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie (1917–2010), textile designer
Lesley Jackson
Day [née Conradi], (Désirée) Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie (1917–2010), textile designer, was born on 5 January 1917 at Dulceholme, Brighton Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, the youngest child and only daughter of Felix Conradi (1871/2–1957), a Belgian-born reinsurance broker, and his English wife, Dulcie Lilian Hilda, ...
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Dean, Beryl (1911–2001), embroiderer
Diane Grant
Dean, Beryl (1911–2001), embroiderer, was born on 2 August 1911 at 70 Sandford Road, Bromley, Kent, the elder daughter of Herbert Charles Dean, stock and share dealer, and later financial adviser, and his wife, Marion, née Petter, a naturally gifted artist of Huguenot descent. ...
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Dorn, Marion V. (1896–1964), designer
Mary Schoeser
Dorn, Marion V. (1896–1964), designer, was born on 25 December 1896, probably at Menlo Park, near San Francisco, California, one of five children of Diodemus Socrates Dorn (1860–1913), lawyer, and Camille Johnson (1870–1932). Educated at Stanford University from 1912 to 1916 (bachelor of arts in graphic arts, Phi Beta Kappa), thereafter she shared a studio in ...
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Dorn, Marion V. (1896–1964)
Maker: Frank Dobson
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Marion V. Dorn (1896–1964) by Frank Dobson, c. 1930–31 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Egerton [née Compton], Marianne Margaret, Viscountess Alford [known as Lady Marian Alford] (1817–1888), art patron and writer on needlework
Virginia Surtees
Egerton [née Compton], Marianne Margaret, Viscountess Alford [known as Lady Marian Alford] (1817–1888), art patron and writer on needlework, was born on 21 June 1817 in the Casa del Pre, Naples; she lived with her parents in Rome from 1820 to 1830, mostly in the ...
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Egerton, Marianne Margaret, Viscountess Alford (1817–1888)
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Marianne Margaret Egerton, Viscountess Alford (1817–1888) by unknown artist Belton House, The Brownlow Collection (The National Trust). Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Eyre [married name Blythe], Mary (b. before 1603, d. in or after 1633), commissioner of a tapestry map
Elizabeth Baigent
Eyre [married name Blythe], Mary (b. before 1603, d. in or after 1633), commissioner of a tapestry map, was the eldest daughter of Anthony Eyre (c.1576–1643×58) of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, West Riding of Yorkshire, and of Keveton, Derbyshire, and his first wife, ...
