She taught fine art and her students included Mollie Grove,[1] Dorothea Francis,[2] and Mary Macqueen.

[5] Grove was twenty years younger than her and she studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts[1] and she discovered that she wanted to weave.

[6] They shared a studio until in 1939 they took a long journey back to Australia looking at craft and teaching facilities in Finland,[7] Russia, Poland and Greece.

[1] They created a company which they called eclarte and in March 1940 they took their woven goods to the Hotel Australia in Melbourne where they staged an exhibition.

[1] All of the staff were said to have been involved in creating a rug to keep Elizabeth II's knees warm on board her aircraft as she flew around Australia that year.

They had looked at British weaving and the company was now customising designs of furnishing fabric for leading architects and prestigious locations - sometimes using power looms.