About Rebecca Devaney:

Rebecca Devaney is a textile artist, researcher, and facilitator with a BA in Art and Design Education (2006) and an MFA in Textile Art and Artefact (2015) from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She received the prestigious Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award (2015), to research hand embroidery in Mexico and the resulting exhibition, Bordados, a collection of photographs, interviews, and textiles, has been presented internationally. Rebecca has completed artist residencies in India, the United Arab Emirates and France. In 2018, following her graduation from École Lesage, Paris, Rebecca worked as a professional haute couture embroiderer for Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Dior, Valentino, Givenchy, and Louis VuiGon. Her research into the origins, history and heritage of haute couture embroidery was selected for the ICOM Costume conference The Making of Luxury at Versailles (2020), published in the Embellishment exhibition catalogue at the Hasselt Museum of Fashion, Belgium, and REBE: Broderies Haute Couture by Nadia Albertini. She has written for Selvedge Magazine, A Stitcher’s Journal and The Makers Atelier. Rebecca established Textile Tours of Paris in 2019 to share her love of the rich heritage of textiles woven through the fabric of Paris. In 2022, she launched Samplers of Seduction, a collection of embroidery boxes with the finest embroidery materials made with the savoir-faire of artisans and craftspeople in their ateliers in France, Italy and England. In 2023 she launched Textile Travels, a series of guides for textile enthusiasts.