Anna Maria Garthwaite: Successful Silk Designer
She turned observations of flowers and plants into intricate textile designs, building a successful creative career and leaving rare evidence of women’s work in the industry.
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Harriet Powers: A Sermon in Patchwork
She stitched religious stories into quilts of extraordinary imagination, preserving her voice through fabric and creating artworks that expanded the possibilities of visual storytelling.