Anna Grace Ida Christie (1872–1953) was an English embroiderer, teacher and historian of embroidery who published a comprehensive work on opus anglicanum in 1938, documenting every known example.
[3] In 1901, Grace Christie had been appointed as an instructor at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in embroidery and tapestry weaving under Leathaby who had become the first professor of design there that same year.
[4] A. F. Kendrick, Keeper of the Department of Textiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum, put on a large exhibition on English Embroidery in 1905 that profoundly influenced the future direction of Christie's work and research.
While she contributed the most articles to the journal, other contributors included her husband, Lethaby, Kendrick, Walter Crane, and William St John Hope, all connected to the Arts and Crafts Movement.
The following year she published a magazine titled Needle and Thread, which covered both ‘new’ designs and historical information about embroidery, but only four issues were produced before publication had to be discontinued by the beginning of the First World War in August 1914.