Mary Card b. 24 September 1861

  • Artist (Industrial / Product Designer)
Designer and 'crochet pattern designer'. By 1917 Mary Card was a celebrity. In the early to mid 1920s Card moved to a small village outside Wokingham in Berkshire, England, where she worked as chief designer for Weldon's, publisher of knitting, crochet and dress patterns.
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exhibited at
The D'Oyley Show: An Exhibition of Women's Domestic Fancywork
Date
10 October 1979 - 27 October 1979
Place
Watter's Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
Tags
Watters Gallery, Feminism, Feminism and Art

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  • Card, David (child of)
  • Shum, W. A. Somerset (associate of)
  • Card, Harriet (sibling of)
  • Card, Arthur (sibling of)
Related stub person groups
  • Ladies' Work Association (associate of)
  • Weldon's (associate of)
  • Women's Domestic Needlework Group (associate of)
Related works
  • Our Hero We're Proud of Him-Anzac (creator of)
  • (Eight 'Giant Charts' of popular designs) (creator of)
  • (First published crochet pattern) (creator of)
Related collections
  • Sydney's Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum), Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related events
  • The D'Oyley Show: An Exhibition of Women's Domestic Fancywork (exhibited at)