{{short description|New Zealand craftswoman, spinner and spinning teacher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2016}} '''Aileen Mary Stace''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|BEM|size=85%}} (1895–1977) was a notable New Zealand craftswoman, spinner and spinning teacher. She was born in Stoney Creek, Manawatu/Horowhenua, New Zealand, in 1895.<ref name="DNZB Stace">{{DNZB|title=Aileen Mary Stace|first= Julia|last= Brooke-White|id=5s38|accessdate=19 January 2012}}</ref> She founded and organised the Eastbourne Spinners and Weavers, taught people to spin and designed patterns for jerseys to be produced from the wool the group produced.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Women together : a history of women's organisations in New Zealand : nga ropu wahine o te motu|date=1993|publisher=Historical Branch, Dept. of Internal Affairs|others=Else, Anne., New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch.|isbn=0-908896-29-8|location=Wellington, N.Z.|oclc=30109456}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Nicholson, Heather.|title=The loving stitch : a history of knitting and spinning in New Zealand|date=1998|publisher=Auckland University Press|isbn=1-86940-188-3|location=Auckland, N.Z.|oclc=41022172}}</ref>
In the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, Stace was awarded the British Empire Medal, for services to the community of Eastbourne, particularly in the encouragement of wool handcrafts.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=44602 |date=8 June 1968 |page=6341 |supp=3}}</ref>
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