Elżbieta Kędzia was born in Łódź, Poland in 1952. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź under the tuition of prof. Antoni Starczewski in the Studio of Gobelin Tapestry and Carpet (1976). She designs artistic textiles and jacquard-woven textiles. In her artworks she uses typical weaving techniques, such as Gobelin tapestry, jacquard and electronic jacquard. From 1976 to 2014 she worked at her home university. From 2004 she was full professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. From 2005 to 2012 she was a dean of the Textile and Clothing Faculty. She held classes in the Studio of Textile Art, the Studio of Computer Aided Fashion Designing and in the Theory of Weave Studio. Since 2014 she has been a professor at the Architecture of Textiles Faculty of the Łódź University of Technology. She runs classes on basics of composition, architecture of textiles and on textiles in the usable area. She has participated twice in the International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź, as well as in most all-Polish exhibitions of textile and miniature textile. Elżbieta has held about 30 solo exhibitions and has participated in 100 group exhibitions. She was a juror and curator of numerous exhibitions and international symposiums of textile. Her works can be found in the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, in the National Museum in Poznań, Poland and in the private collections in Poland and abroad.