Neillí Mulcahy
Irish fashion designer
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Remedios de Escalada
Supporter of Argentine independence and creator of the Argentine flag
Rayna Knyaginya
Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, known for sewing the flag of the April Uprising of 1876
Mercedes Abrego
Colombian independence heroine
Barbara Uthmann
Foundress of the lace industry in her community.
Lily Yeats
Irish embroiderer and designer
Matekoraha Te Peehi Jaram
Maori Ngati Maru, Ngati Awa and Ngati Pukeko; weaver, tailoress, community leader
Catherine Hester Ralfe
Writer whose reminiscences vividly illustrate the lives of colonial women
Louise Henderson
Painter whose long and prodigious career left a huge and influential body of work, which is represented in all major public and many private collections in New Zealand.
Josephine Mulvany
Years before the establishment of major hand-loom weaving guilds in New Zealand, two sisters, Sybil Mary and Josephine Mulvany, were operating a successful weaving business in Auckland. They helped revitalise the craft of fine fabric weaving in New Zealand.