About this Product
Celebrate Votes For Women! with suffragist Ida B. Wells.
Designed specifically for redwork embroidery, this simple line drawing is perfect for hand embroidery, as a relaxing coloring page, or combine the two and create a one-of-a-kind, crayon tinted, embroidered masterpiece.
About this pattern: Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) was born into slavery in Holly Springs, MS & was freed with Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a journalist in Memphis, TN, Wells wrote frequently about the lynching of African-Americans. She eventually moved to Chicago, & continued reporting on lynching, civil rights issues, & woman suffrage. Active in the women’s club movement forming the Women’s Era Club, and the Alpha Suffrage Club. When asked that she & the Alpha Suffrage Club (African-American club) march at the end of the 1913 Suffrage Parade in Washington, DC, Wells refused, & marched with the Illinois delegation. In 2020 Wells was granted a posthumous Pulitzer Prize special citation for her reporting on lynching.
Disclaimer (A.K.A. The Fine Print): Patterns are for your personal use only. Please support my work as a fellow artist/crafter & share my blog & shop to those you think would like my patterns. Do not distribute my patterns yourself. Embroidery pattern ONLY. It's up to you to make it into a tea cozy, pillow, tote, quilt, wall hanging, et al.
Pattern design by Patricia F. (Tisha) Dolton, aprilsongstress designs - aprilsongstress.com - © 2015-2025 - Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Suffragist, Activist, Journalist
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Meet the Maker
Tisha Dolton is a librarian, public historian, singer and embroidery artist specializing in the women's suffrage movement. She creates original patterns and hand embroiders portraits of suffragists and other inspirational people, mainly women.
How it’s Made
Pattern drawn by me using paper and marker, then scanned and made into a PDF. Biography researched and written by me.
