In 1993 I fell in love with a tapestry in a wonderful local fabric store in Denver and had to make something! I made two tapestry bags—one for each of my beloved Grandmothers for their birthdays.”

They were loved and carried by them both for their remaining years. The following year I made a baker’s dozen for Christmas presents. It snowballed from there…everyone wanted one! Still not getting ‘it’! I did finally made one for myself and store owners and managers when travelling asked about my great bag. They expressed interest in buying them for their stores. Now, I was paying attention. Traveled from LA to NY doing shows and calling on any buyer who would see me Alice’s Tapestries bags ultimately ended up in 600+ stores. It was important to me to have an exclusively American product and hire woman locally that were either stay at home mothers or retired who needed the income. They became Alice’s Tapestries family. I could not have done any of it without their help and from so many friends, family and business associates. Thank you all, you know who you are.

Alice’s Tapestries bags have been sold internationally and carried in The National Textile Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The National Museum of Woman in the Arts, The San Diego Museum of Art, The Morgan Library, The Denver Art Museum, The Frank Lloyd Wright Museum at Falling Water to name a few. She sold her bags to boutiques and museum shops from Maine to Hawaii. The bags were voted "Best Handbag" in Westword for "Best of Denver" and have been featured in numerous articles from Giftwear Business to The Rocky Mountain News. They were featured in Women’s Wear Daily, Accessories Magazine and the Island Packet, Hilton Head Island, SC.. She was named “…matriarch of Colorado Handbag Designers” by The Denver Post in 2002.

In 2006 Alice moved Alice’s Tapestries and Art Buttons to Santa Fe, New Mexico to expand her creativity in Santa Fe’s art community. Alice Monroney, taking a sabbatical from handbag designing and manufacturing, began designing buttons for the fashion and knitting world, internationally. Her buttons are carried in New York’s Garment District’s Mood featured on TNT’s “Project Runway” as well as knit and fabric stores from NY to Sydney, Australia….next the other side of the pond.

She teaches and speaks around the country inspiring creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit of women. She is currently making a video and is working on a book of her work.

Alice K. Monroney was born and raised in the Washington, D. C. area. Alice is a published writer and was trained in sales and marketing with Fortune 100 company, TRW, Inc. and worked on Capital Hill for the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. .She studied Art History and Fashion Design at Marymount University in McLean, Virginia and Biology at The University of Denver and Business Law in Cleveland, Ohio.

A family history...

On her mother's side of the family Alice is the direct descendent of two signers of The Declaration of Independence, Samuel Chase and Oliver Wolcott. Her paternal Grandfather was U.S. Senator A.S. Mike Monroney (D-OK) serving in the U. S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate from 1938-1968. Alice's father was a reporter for The Washington Post and went on to be a member of the Kennedy then Johnson administration. Her family still resides and is frequently visited in Washington, D.C.