Women in Lace: Text based research requests and tasks
Firmin Baes: The dream of the lacemaker. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The gaps we are trying to fill in Wikipedia include some high-priority biographies of women important in lace.
According to Humaniki only 19.80% of English Wikipedia biographies are about women as of 8 April 2024. —WikiProject Women
Here is a partial list of the current top priority women, but more may be added as we proceed. If anyone knows of existing biographical articles in the lace community archives (books, newsletters, bulletins, magazines) please let me know. If there is someone else we can add, let us know and help us do it!
We would also like some images, but those will be subject of a second post. I include some notes about relevant reasons or things I have already located. If there isn’t a note, it’s just because I haven’t had a chance to do any research yet.
Feel free to offer other names to add to the list in the comments too. You might also find inspiration to write among the WomenInRed list of textile artists.
Completely absent pages:
Gertrude Whiting (prolific author, Bobbin & Lace Club, work in The Met)
Francis Morris (first female curator at The Met, author, Bobbin & Lace Club)
Charlotte Treadwin, entrepreneur and designer (sample patterns exist, Royal Albert digitized her pattern book?; biography exists, book)
Ann Orr (tatting books still in use; designer and entrepreneur and important editor)
Mlle. Eleonore Riego de la Branchardiere (prolific author, tatting, crochet—patterns still in use and are wonderful!)
Marion Powys (biography, photo)
Pat Earnshaw (prolific author)
Sister Judith de Kreijger (Withof Duchesse creator, designer, cherished teacher)
Marguerite Brooks
Sarah Hadley (crochet, Irish crochet, bobbin lace, entrepreneur)
Kathe Kliot (Lacis)
Mary McPeek (Cantu and the USPS lace stamps?)
Could use edits, images like book covers or photos
Anne Buck (extensive obituary + photo, Costume vol 40, 2006)
Therese de Dillmont (needs better list of publications, book covers, organization, publications list? )
Santina Levey (needs list of works, references, book covers?)
Fanny Bury Palliser page is thin
Cora Slocum di Brazza needs a lace section (saw a lecture on her recently, IOLI? OIDFA?)
Cone sisters as huge lace collectors (IOLI talk? also this talk Matisse and Old Lace: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore)
Barbara Uttman or Uthmann could use improvement
