Mary Card b. 24 September 1861

  • Designer (Textile Artist / Fashion 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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child of
David Card
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associate of
W. A. Somerset Shum
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sibling of
Harriet Card
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sibling of
Arthur Card
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References [<ExternalResource: 'Australian Home Beautiful'.>, <ExternalResource: Ballantyne, Barbara (August 2002), 'Mary Card and her crochet lace', Australiana, (August 2002), 90-94, .>, <ExternalResource: Jeffries, Barbara (1982), 'Three of a Kind', Melbourne, Vic : Sisters.>, <ExternalResource: O'Neill, Sally (1979), 'Card, Mary (1861 - 1940)', Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press.>, <ExternalResource: (1979), 'The D'Oyley Show', Sydney, NSW : Women's Domestic Needlework catalogue.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Kingston, Beverley.>, <ExternalResource: (1910), New Idea.>, <ExternalResource: 'Needlecraft', USA.>, <ExternalResource: (c.1916), 'Mary Card's Crochet Book, Number 4', Melbourne, Vic : Everylady's Journal.>, <ExternalResource: Ballantyne, B. (2002), 'Mary Card: Australian Crochet Lace Designer', Drummoyne NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Everylady's Journal.>] [<ExternalResource: 'Australian Home Beautiful'.>, <ExternalResource: Ballantyne, Barbara (August 2002), 'Mary Card and her crochet lace', Australiana, (August 2002), 90-94, .>]