Elie Saab

Elie Saab

male, 44 years old
Elie Saab, sometimes known simply as 'ES', is a Lebanese fashion designer. In 1982, Saab launched his own Beirut-based fashion label when he was... More
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Nancy Zieman

female
Nancy Zieman is the TV host of "Sewing with Nancy", a half-hour TV show broadcast since September, 1982, making it the longest-airing sewing... More
Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks

female, deceased (2005)
Rosa Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". On... More
Mary Brooks Picken

Mary Brooks Picken

female, deceased (1981)
Mary Brooks Picken was an influential American author of numerous books on needlework, sewing, and textile arts. Born in Aug. 6 1886, she attended... More
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Barthélemy Thimonnier

male, deceased (1857)
Barthélemy Thimonnier, born on August 19 1793 in France, invented the first sewing machine that replicated sewing by hand. The patent for his m... More
Ebenezer Butterick

Ebenezer Butterick

male, deceased (1903)
Ebenezer Butterick (29 May 1826 - 31 March 1903) was an American inventor, manufacturer, and fashion business executive, born in Sterling,... More
Margarete Steiff

Margarete Steiff

female, deceased (1909)
German toymaker Margarete Steiff (July 24, 1847 - May 9 1909), born in Giengen, started creating toy stuffed animals in 1880 in the town of Giengen... More
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Denise Wild

female
Denise Wild is a Canadian editor and journalist. She is currently the editorial director of Faze Magazine (Canada’s largest teen publication) and au... More
Elizabeth Cass

Elizabeth Cass

female, 145 years old
Elizabeth Cass, later Elizabeth Langley was a British seamstress and dress designer whose mistaken arrest for prostitution in 1887 became a minor... More
Daphne Sewing

Daphne Sewing

female
Daphne Sewing is the Forever Earth/Discover Mojave Outdoor World Project Manager. Daphne comes to UNLV from the U.S. Forest Service and brings... More