Anna P. Benson

Anna Benson is a weaver and textile historian. She studied textiles at Leeds University and developed an absorbing interest in textile history when she began collecting old Yorkshire textile machinery. She is a chartered textile technologist and has completed an MA specialising in the textiles of historic houses. She was formerly curator of the Helmshore Textile Museum and manager of Queen Street Mill weaving museum, Burnley, Lancashire. Anna and her husband run a specialist weaving business reproducing fabrics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.