While it's not considered a major artform by today's standards, needle work was almost exclusively carried out by women during the middle ages. An example of an incredibly important piece of needlework from this period is the Bayeux tapestry which details the 1066 Normandy invasion of England. This work was likely overseen by men but would have been created by a large team of women.

It is extremely hard to attribute any piece pof medieval art to any artist. This is because the profession was not well regarded until the works of art historians like Vasari from the Renaissance period would reimagine painters and sculptors from tradesmen to intellectual artists. Before this shift, artists would almost never sign their work and little record or writing was made about them. Renaissance art historians paid little attention to needlework as a genre in favour of 'higher' arts related related to Greek and Roman antiquity.

While we know for a fact that tapestries, one of the grandest and most esteemed mediums of the medieval world, were largely produced by teams of women, these artists will always likely remain anonymous. However, there lack of personal esteem should not take away from their importance in medieval art.