is thesis aims to investigate and understand the role of women in Brazilian design through textile artifacts. We start at the beginning of Brazilian design's institutionalization to locate its rst generation of professionals who did not have higher educations in the eld. Two central questions guided our investigation: what were the contributions of women to the eld's constitution together with how these were documented, and what is the place of textile artifacts in the historiography of design. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Museum of Art of São Paulo (MASP) and the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) were important spaces in the development of design and its pedagogy. From mapping the courses and exhibitions o ered at these institutions we delineated this thesis around the life and work of six women artists and designers: Fayga