Editing Ann Macbeth (section)

== Artistic output ==
[[File:Banner designed and worked by Ann Macbeth The Studio Magazine vol 50 (1910).jpg|thumb|Banner designed and worked by Ann Macbeth. The Studio Magazine vol 50 (1910)]]
Macbeth became a renowned embroider and designer. Her prolific output included bookbindings, metalwork and designs for carpet manufacturers [[Alexander Morton (manufacturer)|Alexander Morton and Co.]], Donald Bros. of Dundee, and [[Liberty & Co.|Liberty's & Knox's Linen Thread Company]].<ref name="Recent"/> For Liberty, Macbeth also provided [[Art Nouveau]]-style embroidery designs that featured in the firm's mail order catalogues until the outbreak of the First World War. Her designs were sold by Liberty as iron-on transfers for the embroidery of dresses and furniture.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Rise and Fall of Art Needlework: Its Socio-economic and Cultural Aspects|author=Linda Cluckie|publisher=Arena Books|year=2008|isbn=9780955605574|pages=143}}</ref>
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In 1920 Macbeth moved to [[Patterdale]] in Westmorland, [[Cumbria]]. She remained a visiting lecturer at the Glasgow School of Arts until her retirement in 1928. In Patterdale she continued to produce needleworks, often large decorative designs, and produced church hangings and vestments.<ref name="Chic2212"/> She also decorated [[china (material)|china]] and fired her own china in a kiln she had built herself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KGlAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XZUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2980,4906359&dq=ann-macbeth&hl=en|title=Two Women of Distinction|date=2 April 1948|work=[[The Glasgow Herald]]|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref> She devised a simple method of rug-weaving which was published in her book ''Country Woman’s Rug'' in 1929. She argued that machines would democratise design and that craftworkers who understood the workings of machines could achieve high artistic quality.<ref name="Chic2212"/> In the summers Macbeth lived on a crag in Helvelly in a self-designed house and captured the local hillsides in embroidery. Outside the house she dyed her own yarn in pits.<ref name="Chic2212"/>