Lily Yeats

Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 25 August 1866 – 5 January 1949) was an embroiderer associated with the Celtic Revival. Born in County Sligo, Ireland, she was the daughter of John Butler Yeats and the sister of William Butler, Jack and Elizabeth Yeats. She became involved in the Arts and Crafts movement in London, working as assistant to May Morris. Returning to Dublin in 1900, she and her sister Elizabeth joined Evelyn Gleeson in the Dun Emer crafts studio, where she ran the needlework section. In 1908 she founded the embroidery department of Cuala Industries, with which she was involved until its dissolution in 1931. She is known for her embroidered pictures.

The Yeats family settled in Bedford Park, London, in 1888, and the family often visited William Morris at Kelmscott House. Money was tight, and Lily was offered an opportunity to learn embroidery in the style propounded by Morris, which would become known as art needlework. She studied under Morris's daughter May, who ran the embroidery section of Morris & Co., and on 10 December 1888 was paid ten shillings for her first week's work for the firm. By March 1889 Lily was training embroideresses for the firm.

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