Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, Craft, Art - Elizabeth Wincott Heckett

Williams, Mary Ann: - Mary Ann Williams is a writer and editor who specialises in writing about heritage. She has a lifelong interest in textiles, archaeology and textile history. n n nIn Ireland her clients have included St Patrick's Cathedral, the County Museum, Dundalk, the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre and the Heritage Officers of Counties Laois and Offaly. She edited and shaped the text of Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise (Caimin O'Brien, Mercier 2005), a book about monastic sites in Offaly. nIn the United States, her clients have included the Field Museum of Natural History, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Shedd Aquarium.n n n nShe met Wincott Heckett while doing research on an historical novel about spinning, set in Early Christian Ireland. nn