ABSTRACT
Janis Jefferies discusses the history of feminist textile art, noting how issues of women's role as employees in the textile industry, as well as the association of crafts such as sewing, embroidery, darning and mending textiles in the home with housework and maternal labour. Some of the more famous woman, such as Gertrude Jekyll, whose garden design is now an integral part of Hampstead garden suburb and who influenced the conception and planning of other British garden cities, became designers whose work exists and anonymous design. This chapter focuses on Sarah Chaplin, who explores the relationship between the conventions of modernism in architecture and the idealisation of the masculine author of a work, and goes on to discuss the contemporary practice of a feminist architectural collective. Cheryl Buckley describes the history of women's employment within the ceramics industry, as designers and as paintresses, before detailing the work of two twentieth-century women designers.
