Lily Goddard was a designer for the British textiles industry in the years between 1946 and 1962, producing many patterns for a variety of major British companies. Goddard, then Lily Weinmann, trained as a designer at the College of Applied Arts and Crafts in Vienna where she was taught by, among others, Professor Ernst Gombrich, Professor Josef Hoffmann and Professor Franz Czisek. She came to London as a refugee in April 1939, where she settled and became a naturalised British subject in 1949. She worked at Julius Frank's design studio (Frank Designs Ltd.) for six years, developing skills as a creative designer as well as a knowledge of repeats and colourways. After leaving Frank Designs, she worked as a freelancer, using travel in France, Italy and the United States to help broaden her concepts of both designing and marketing her collection to a great variety of manufacturers which eventually included Liberty textiles, Deeko paperware, Crossley carpets and Sanderson wallpapers. She was a fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers (then the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers) from 1950 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1978.