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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Citations

  • 'Australian Home Beautiful’.

  • Ballantyne, Barbara (August 2002), 'Mary Card and her crochet lace’, Australiana, (August 2002), 90-94, .

  • Jeffries, Barbara (1982), 'Three of a Kind’, Melbourne, Vic : Sisters.

  • O’Neill, Sally (1979), 'Card, Mary (1861 – 1940)’, Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press.

  • (1979), 'The D’Oyley Show’, Sydney, NSW : Women’s Domestic Needlework catalogue.

  • Information sourced from Kingston, Beverley.

  • (1910), New Idea.

  • 'Needlecraft’, USA.

  • (c.1916), 'Mary Card’s Crochet Book, Number 4’, Melbourne, Vic : Everylady’s Journal.

  • Ballantyne, B. (2002), 'Mary Card: Australian Crochet Lace Designer’, Drummoyne NSW.

  • Everylady’s Journal.

See also

  • 'Section 10, plate 415'.

Initial data sources

  • Heritage: The National Women's Art Book

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