Folly Cove Designers was a group of designer-craftsman, comprised of mostly women, from the Folly Cove neighborhood of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The group began in 1938 (Wikipedia), when Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios, a children's book author and visual artist, created a course to teach her friends and neighbors how to design and fashion linoleum printing blocks to create their own patterned cloth (Moyer). In 1940, the group held their first public exhibition, and in 1941, the group became the Folly Cove Designers (Wikipedia). Between 1941 and 1955, Folly Cove Designers participated in 16 museum exhibitions, in addition to supplying designs to a number of well known wholesalers and retailers including Lord & Taylor, F. Schumacher, Rich's of Atlanta, and Skinner Silks (Cape Ann Museum).

Demetrios died in 1968, and the following year the remaining designers agreed to close Folly Cove Designers. Their materials were donated to the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Moyer).