Celia Birtwell

Celia Birtwell

female, 68 years old
Celia Birtwell is a textile designer. Born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1941, she studied Textile Design in Manchester, where in 1959 she met the...
Tim Biskup

Tim Biskup

male
Tim Biskup is an American artist who lives in Pasadena, California. He works in the pop-design genre that emerged in the late 20th century through...
Anni Albers

Anni Albers

female, deceased (1994)
Annelise Albers (June 12, 1899 - May 9, 1994) was a German-American textile artist and printmaker. She is perhaps the best known textile artist of...

Francis Cabot Lowell

male, deceased (1817)
Francis Cabot Lowell (April 7, 1775 - April 10, 1817) was the American business man for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States is...
Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli

female, deceased (1973)
Elsa Schiaparelli was a Parisian fashion designer of the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in Rome, Italy, of Italian and Egyptian heritage. She was a...
John Rylands

John Rylands

male, deceased (1888)
John Rylands (February 7, 1801 - December 11, 1888) was an English weaver, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Born in St Helens Lancashire, to a...

Thomas Johnson

male
Thomas Johnson was the mechanic of William Radcliffe. Radcliffe was an English inventor who created the dressing frame-one of the key technological...
Guillaume Sarkozy

Guillaume Sarkozy

male, 58 years old
Guillaume Georges Didier Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa, simply known as Guillaume Sarkozy, is a French textile entrepreneur and vice-president of the M...
Oliver Evans

Oliver Evans

male, deceased (1819)
Oliver Evans (13 September, 1755 - 15 April, 1819) was a United States inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware. At the age of 14 he was...
Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz

female, 79 years old
Magdalena Abakanowicz is a Polish sculptor. She is notable for her use of textiles as a sculptural medium and is regarded as being one of the most...