Digital Collection Of Mary Card’s Work
Part I
Lists of Mary Card’s work available for downloading
The codes given at the beginning of the Mary Card’s Legacy of Crochet Lace book are also used in these lists namely
B = Book, C = Chart, M = Magazine
A = Australia, E = England, U for USA
NI = New Idea, EJ = Everylady’s Journal, HB = Australian Home Beautiful,
NC = Needlecraft, MP = Modern Priscilla
These have been combined to give, for example BA2 for Mary’s Crochet Book No 2.
Even though Mary produced many charts only 34 of them are in this collection. They are expensive and time consuming to digitize because they are large and often in poor condition.
Nevertheless most if not all the patterns in the charts are available on this website because many have been included in my books. You can locate particular patterns in the spreadsheet section. These spreadsheets have details of the many series of her charts in the three countries in which she worked. As you probably know, most of her designs in the charts were reprinted at least once.
Australian Series
CODE
FREE DOWNLOAD
English Series
American Series
Books
BU1
Mary Card’s Crochet Book: Original & artistic designs in filet, Venetian and other styles of crochet patterns
American Magazines
Australian Home Beautiful
Part II
Notes on printing the files
Because the charts, magazine articles and one of Mary’s books are larger than the A4 size commonly used in home printers in most of the world, the sizes of the printouts need to be considered. North American paper sizes are different to the International Standard ones (A1–4) given in the text and table below.
CHARTS
Most of the charts are in a large format similar to today’s A1 (594 x 841 mm or 23.4 x 33.1 inches) as given below. If you want a copy in about the original size you need a printer who does Plan printing. Search on the internet for ‘Plan printing + your city’
All the American charts, CE502 and the English unnumbered Love bird teacosy cover chart in the list below are smaller and will be close to the original size if printed on A2 (420 x 594 mm or 16.5 x 23.4 inches).
However, keep in mind that if you are interested in admiring the designs rather than crocheting them, you could consider printing the charts on A4 or A3 and inserting them in plastic sleeves in a display book.
BOOKS
Most of the books are a little smaller than A4 so may be printed in close to the original sizes on many home printers. The one exception, B4 is larger, close to A3. You may need to go to a commercial printer for this larger size or if you want better quality.
MAGAZINES
These American magazines are close to portrait A3. Note that the size of Needlecraft changed over time.
MUMP Modern Priscilla
MUNC Needlecraft
International Standard Paper sizes in most of the world
