Loma Rudduck was the wife of Grenfell Rudduck, architect and town planner, and was active in the field of child-care and mothercraft. She also co-authored The Mothering Years : The Story of the Canberra Mothercraft Society 1926-1979 (1979), compiled Call to the Islands : Amos Family History (1986), and wrote And So to Sew : A History of Embroidery in the Australian Capital Territory (1992).