Marjory Hinemoa Mills

Marjory Hinemoa Mills (11 November 1896 – 22 May 1987) was a New Zealand embroiderer who was an artist and business owner.

Early life Mills was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 11 November 1896. Her parents were Thomas, a journalist, and Elizabeth (born Huggins). By 1920 the family had moved to Feilding as her father had purchased the local newspaper. Mills continued her schooling at Feilding District High School. Mills' mother taught her embroidery as a child, and she also had lessons with her art tutor's wife, a graduate of the Royal School of Needlework, London.

Later life In the 1920s, Margaret Alcorn and Mary Alcorn hired Mills to design embroidery patterns for their shop on Lambton Quay, Wellington, called "Liberty's Wellington". Mills had a team of assistants who printed her patterns onto fabric for sale.

The Alcorns' shops went into liquidation during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and Mills went into business on her own. She and a friend, Irene Esau, opened a needlework shop in Palmerston North in 1934,

Recognition Mills was made a life member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts in 1983.