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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Citations

  • (1996), 'Hardess, Catherine (1889–1970)’, Australia.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hardess-catherine-10423

  • anon. (1 January 1941), 'Design in Everyday Things’.

  • Grove, Mollie (1985), 'Hand-woven fabrics from eclarté’, Craft Australia, (Spring).

  • Leyser, Joan (1955), 'eclarté: An Australian vision’, Australian Home Beautiful, February.

  • (1955), Architecture in Australia, Volume 44, Number 3, July-September.

  • Hunt, Jo-Ann (1973), 'eclarté’, Thesis (unpublished), State College of Victoria, Vic.

  • Richards, Michaela (1993), 'Interview with Ross and Phyllis Hohnen’, August, 28, Canberra, ACT.

  • Information sourced from McPhee, John.

See also

  • 'Section 5, plate 225'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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