Sue Fuller (American, b. 1914) was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. She was an American sculptor, draughtsman, author teacher and printmaker. Her inspiration for her medium of choice, string, came from her mother who was skilled in the crafts of knitting and crocheting. She experimented with some techniques that developed into a unique form of sculpture. At the Carnegie Institute of Technology, she created prints by pressing lace, fabric, and netting into the soft wax that coats the etching plate. The etching then became an unnecessary step in Fuller’s work, and she began to focus purely on creating sculpture from woven and wound patterns of threads. She pioneered the technique of embedding delicate threads within synthetic plastic to prevent them from sagging or losing their color.