Anne Catherine Hof Blinks
Botanist, weaver and textile scholar (1903–1995) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anne Catherine Hof Blinks (1903–1995[1]) was an American botanist and textiles scholar.
Blinks worked at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University and Harvard University Herbaria where she primarily studied and curated algae.[1] Species that she described included Derbesia osterhoutii (L.R.Blinks & A.C.H.Blinks) J.Z.Page from Great Sound, Bermuda, as Halicystis osterhoutii L.R.Blinks & A.C.H.Blinks.[2][3]
Blinks was also known for her work on historic and pre-historical textiles. For over 45 years, she studied, wrote about, collected and created unusual textiles, traveling widely. She amassed a large collection, which later became the basis for a teaching collection.[4][5] Her work in textiles was acknowledged with the publication of the Festschrift In Celebration of the Curious Mind: A Festschrift to Honor Anne Blinks on Her 80th Birthday (1983).[5]