Anna Maria Garthwaite (b. Harston, UK, 1690 – d. 1753, London, UK) was the daughter of a Lincolnshire clergyman. She moved to London in 1728 with her sister, bought this house in Spitalfields, the English centre of luxury silk production, and created more than 1000 silk designs which she sold to local weavers. The Victoria & Albert Museum holds samples of 800. The blue plaque on her dwelling records her dates and that she was a designer of Spitalfields silks.
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