Artist, instructor, and innovator in fiber arts
By: Lillian Elliott ; with an introduction by Charles Edmund Rossbach ; interviews conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1986. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Rossbach, Ed.; Nathan, Harriet.; Hickman, Pat, 1941-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1992
Subjects: Women textile designers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.; Basket makers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.; Textile industry -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Fiber arts oral history series.
Description: Elliott discusses her family and early education in Detroit; career as first woman designer, Ford Motor Co.; teaching career at the University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley,, and College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, Calif.; marriage to Roy Elliott; textile history; technique, play and experiment in the arts; commissions, competitions, and shows. Includes a joint interview with Pat Hickman, her collaborator.