WEG's Founders

A small group of Winnipeg women ... stitchers, creators, designers, artists ... are responsible for bringing like-minded Canadian women together to create the Embroiderers Association of Canada ... with the Winnipeg Embroiderers' Guild as the foundation guild.

 

Here are biographies of some of them:

• Leonida Leatherdale

• Shirley Tyderkie

• Jo Hewitt-Nickel

• Dot From

• Eleanor Thomas