Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Artist, instructor, and innovator in fiber arts : oral history transcript / 1992.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Artist, instructor, and innovator in fiber arts : oral history transcript / 1992Fiber arts oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Elliott, Lillian, 1930-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Rossbach, Ed.Creator/Contributor:
Nathan, Harriet, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Hickman, Pat, 1941-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
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.
Date:
1992 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWomen textile designers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Basket makers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Textile industry -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Dessinatrices de tissus -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Textiles et tissus -- Industrie et commerce -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de
Basket makers
Textile industry
Women textile designers
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Note:
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,
Interviewed for the Fiber arts oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as: Phonotape 2723 C:1-10.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
Interviews.Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
Transcript: xi, 215 p. : port. ; 29 cm.
10 cassette tapes.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.