Lillian Mosseller

Lillian Mosseller (1897-1992), also known as Lillian M. Mosseller, was an American master rug maker and artist. She founded the Mills-Mosseller Studio in North Carolina in 1926. During the Great Depression, Lillian created watercolor drawings of hooked rugs for the Index of American Design, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Mosseller's son Ronald Mosseller used wool-weaving processes developed by Lillian until the studio stopped production in the 2010s. According to oral history, in 1945 when U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt suffered a fatal stroke, Roosevelt was seated on a rug made by Lillian Mosseller.