Erica Wilson

Erica Wilson (8 October 1928 – 13 December 2011) was an English-born American embroidery designer based in New York, known particularly for needlepoint.

Wilson earned the nicknames "Julia Child of embroidery" and "America's first lady of stitchery" for her work.

[1] She moved to Bermuda with her parents as a baby, when her father, a British military colonel, was stationed on the island.

She began her studies at the Royal School of Needlework in London in 1945, and graduated three years later, having stitched many standard designs, but also some of her own devising.

She also had a shop in New York City (Erica Wilson Needleworks) for 33 years.