Susan Duke b. 25 November 1898

Also known as Miss S Duke, Susan Monteith
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer)
Schoolteacher and sewing instructor active in the Ballarat region in the 1920s. A design for The Weekly Times Crochet Book (1924) was used in one of the posters for the D'Oyley Show in 1979
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Susan Duke was born at Bungaree, Victoria, in 1898, the eldest child of John Hallyer Duke and Sarah Ann Suckling. In 1922 Duke was appointed sewing mistress at the Bullarook State School, teaching there and at nearby Pootilla State School. During her time teaching, Duke designed a crochet design for a corner piece, featuring a bush hut with gumnut decorations. This design was used in the _The Weekly Times Crochet Book _(1924). In 1926 Duke married William Douglas Monteith. In the late 1970s Duke’s design for the crochet corner piece was used in the posters and catalogues for the D’Oyley Show which toured from Watters Gallery. Coincidentally, Duke’s nephew, the performance poet Jas H. Duke, also contributed to the design of feminist posters at about this time. Susan Monteith died in Ballarat East in 1989.

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