Catherine Hardess b. 18 November 1889

Also known as Catherine Hardress
Fabric designer, she worked in collaboration with Mollie Grove. Together they established a business and from 1940 until the early 1960s, they worked as artist-craftswomen producing Australian woven textiles. Work by Hardess is shown in "Design in Everyday Things" ABC, 1941 where she is described as an interior designer and fashion designer.
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child of
George Hendry Hardess
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child of
née Taylor Ann Emma Hardess
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associate of
Osborne Robinson
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associate of
Robert Young
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associate of
Mollie (Edith M.) Grove
1909
Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
associate of
Margaret Francis
1889
Artist (Painter)

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References [<ExternalResource: (1996), 'Hardess, Catherine (1889–1970)', Australia.>, <ExternalResource: anon. (1 January 1941), 'Design in Everyday Things'.>, <ExternalResource: Grove, Mollie (1985), 'Hand-woven fabrics from eclarté', Craft Australia, (Spring).>, <ExternalResource: Leyser, Joan (1955), 'eclarté: An Australian vision', Australian Home Beautiful, February.>, <ExternalResource: (1955), Architecture in Australia, Volume 44, Number 3, July-September.>, <ExternalResource: Hunt, Jo-Ann (1973), 'eclarté', Thesis (unpublished), State College of Victoria, Vic.>, <ExternalResource: Richards, Michaela (1993), 'Interview with Ross and Phyllis Hohnen', August, 28, Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from McPhee, John.>] [<ExternalResource: (1996), 'Hardess, Catherine (1889–1970)', Australia.>, <ExternalResource: anon. (1 January 1941), 'Design in Everyday Things'.>]