Antique MARY CARD? Design Filet Hand Crochet 'Blue Bells' Small Duchess set

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Seller: blue_wren_cottage ✉️ (3,104) 100%, Location: Gippsland, Victoria, AU, Ships to: WORLDWIDE, Item: 226011364385 Antique MARY CARD? Design Filet Hand Crochet 'Blue Bells' Small Duchess set.

Antique MARY CARD? Design Filet Hand Crochet 'Blue Bells' Doily set

Mary Card 'Blue Bell' Design ~ 3 piece Small centre/mat set

I have for sale a matching 3 piece set in the Blue Bell design, of Mary Card? Antique hand crochet. This small centre and side doilies go  with the 'Blue Bells and Cockatoos' centrepiece c1930's. These wonderful pieces of history have  been made in a quality cotton thread called 'Spun Gold', like a dark gold honey colour.

See all photos below - I have taken photos on a dark and white cloth to show the colour.
A design by Mary Card? 1861-1940
(an Australian lady who became world famous for her creative crochet designs - see more information about her below)
These stunning and intricate lace pieces are highly collectible and getting very hard to find :)
- just wonderful :)

Very Good Antique Condition - the two side doilies are in very good to excellent condition, the main small centre has a broken bride on left side, and a small hole from broken brides to the right side - small darn?

Measurements; Small centre 24.5cm x 21cm or 9.5" x 8 2/8"

Side doilies 16.5cm x 14.5cm or 6.5" x 5 6/8 inches - both

Ref; some details and photo from 'Mary Card Bird' design book by Barbara Ballantyne 19/2/24 :)

 

A Possible design by Mary Card? 1861-1940.

'Mary Card' was an Australian lady who became world famous for her creative crochet  designs.

In 1917 Mary was already well known and popular for her books, and giant charts from the previous seven years. Mary then moved to the USA, going to New York and worked for 'Needlecraft' magazine of which her designs were published using her name.

Mary moved to England in the late 1920's, designing more of her giant charts and patterns.

Mary worked for Weldon's (a large fashion and needlework publisher) as a possible lead designer? 'Weldon's Practical Needlework' magazine. However, Weldon's never gave credit to their designers, or the dates on their magazine - only series numbers, and never included graphs of the design.

There are a lot of stunning patterns that 'could be' Mary's, as they incorporate features that are consistent with her style ie open Lacets - a background,  which was mostly Mary's trademark, in which it helped to distinguish the main design with light and space. Mary was also known for her flowing designs (not stiff and repetitive) with animals, birds, and butterflies and other insects amongst flowers.

We may never know some patterns are Mary's? but there was a small find with Weldon's series 134 in which they published a filet cloth. This cloth matched a design from a US and Aust magazine in the 1930's that was Mary's. Graphs were also used in this issue - which Weldon's usually did not include, but was a trademark of Mary's  work.

Information on Mary Card (1861–1940)

Mary Card (1861-1940), crochet pattern designer, was born on 24 September 1861 at Castlemaine, Victoria Australia. In 1880 Mary was a student at the National Gallery School of Design. 1903 she had become increasing deaf, faced with the need to find an occupation in which her disability was not a handicap, she decided to combine her writing, drawing and needle-work abilities to become a 'professional designer and teacher of needlework through the press'. Choosing Irish crochet as her medium, she joined a Ladies' Work Association which undertook repairs of valuable crochet pieces and taught herself to mend old lace. When she discovered that she could make new and effective designs to be worked from a chart method of her own invention rather than the usual printed directions.

Her first designs were published in the Ladies' Home Journal in the United States of America. In 1909 she decided to offer her designs and a monthly article to the New Idea (later Everylady's Journal), Melbourne. Her patterns became so popular that the editor reprinted many. She then developed 'giant charts' for more ambitious designs and to cater for workers with failing eyesight, drawn on the scale of ten squares to the inch with a guiding line at every inch.

With five books published, Mary went to the U.S.A. late in 1917 to launch some of her newer designs. In New York, The Mary Card Co. was set up to reprint her crochet books. Later she settled in England in a studio-cottage at Barkham, Berkshire. She continued to produce designs for more than twenty years

Mary Card revisited Australia occasionally. Early in 1940, in poor health, she returned to Victoria to live at Olinda, where she shared a cottage with her sister Harriet. She died there on 13 October 1940 and was cremated.

Reference ~24/08/2016; Citation detail; Sally O'Neill, 'Card, Mary (1861–1940)', Australian Dictionary of Biography published in hardcopy 1979

Would look so lovely in your collection :)

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  • Condition: Used
  • Condition: Very Good Antique Condition – see description and photos ~~~~ Only Reasonable offers considered. ~~~ Note; If using a mobile device and want more details? please see 'Item description from seller' as you scroll down - all details are there.
  • Colour: Spun Gold, dark honey
  • Brand: Mary Card
  • Model: 'Blue Bells' Small Doily set

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