Antique Wonderful Mary Card Design 'Cockatoo' deals White Hand Crochet Centrepiece/mat

Amazing Mary Card 'Cockatoo' Centrepiece

I have for sale a wonderful Vintage white hand crochet Mary Card design centrepiece, with a 'Cockatoo' sitting in a branch to four sections that are sewn together. Beautifully hand crocheted with a quality fine white cotton thread, and attached to a white linen centre. The Cockatoo is a main feature around the border of the 'Mary Card' Australian themed bed cover from book No.1 c1914 - see photos

- See more photos below
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 - one section has two small obvious holes, and some very faint wear marks to the Cocky - not broken - darn? but not too bad for something so old :)

Measurements; 38cm square or 15 inches square

These stunning and intricate lace pieces are highly collectible and getting very hard to find :) - just wonderful

See photos - I have included a photo of the design at the end :)

Note; I have these listed on eBay too - so be quick

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 :)


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 deals 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 :)

Freshly washed and pressed - Ready to use

Overseas buyers must pay via PayPal.

Keep watching as I will be listing lot more Vintage Linen and treasures in the days/weeks to come :)

I also sell on eBay, and have hundreds of stunning linens listed under; Blue Wren Cottage - Vintage Linen
Linens include; Hand embroidered tablecloths, centrepieces, doilies, panels and much much more :) I have auctions but sell as 'Buy it now' - so you can have your 'Treasure' straight away :)

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