Author: Mary E. Black O.T.R.
Alternate names: Mary E. Black (Canadian artist); Black, Mary E.; Mary E. Black Canadian artist, Director of Nova Scotia Handcrafts and Home Industries; Mary E Black
Born: 1895
Died: 1988
Bio: Mary Ellouise Black (September 18, 1895 – February 11, 1988), an occupational therapist, teacher, master weaver and writer, created almost single-handedly a renaissance in crafts in Nova Scotia in the 1940s and 1950s. Her best-known book, The Key to Weaving, was published in 1945 and has since run to three editions and numerous printings. Its clarity is without parallel, and more than half a century later it remains a handweaver's prime source of information. -Wikipedia