Therese de Dillmont

Thérèse de Dillmont (10 October 1846 – 22 May 1890) was an Austrian needleworker and writer. Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886) has been translated into 17 languages.[1] She owned a string of shops in European capitals and she was "one o the most important pioneers in the international and multicultural enterprise of hobby needlework in the late nineteenth century".[2]