My friend Gilda Baron,who has died aged 77, spent much of her life teaching textile design, and later became a famous textile artist in her own correct.
Born in Stepney,east London, to Sidney, and a taylor,and Eva (nee Gosman), a housewife, and Gilda had a disrupted early education due to the second world war,but at 13 was able to join Shoreditch technical school, where she learned all the skills needed for the garment trade. Initially she worked in the clothing industry as a designer and pattern-cutter, and then worked from domestic when she had her three daughters. When the last of them started school,she began teaching adult education evening classes at Holmes Road in Camden, north London, or continued to work in community and adult education for the next 30 years,teaching fashion, textile and dressmaking to a variety of community groups.
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Source: theguardian.com