Grace Christie

Born in London in 1872, Grace Christie was an English embroiderer, teacher, and historian of embroidery. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts around 1900, after earlier education that reportedly included painting at the Slade School of Fine Art.

She became an instructor in embroidery and tapestry weaving at the Royal College of Art in 1901, working in the circle of designer and educator W. R. Lethaby. In 1906 she published Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, and she and her husband, artist and architect Archibald H. Christie, exhibited work through Arts and Crafts movement shows in the early twentieth century.

Christie is especially remembered for her scholarship. Deeply influenced by major museum exhibitions of historic textiles, she edited and wrote for the periodical Embroidery and later published a major study of opus anglicanum in 1938, aiming to document every known example of this medieval English embroidery tradition. She died in 1953.