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A Thousand Stitches of Hope
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese women in stitching 75 commemorative senninbari belts. In a series of sewing workshops, the art...AWM2018.765.1
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [a change of heart]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt hand-embroidered with a kangaroo, wattle and the Southern Cross in the centre, with a pattern of stripes leading towards each end. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art ...AWM2018.765.1.1
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [blackout]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt with embroidery of two houses with blacked-out windows, and a tree between them, stitched in black thread. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundr...AWM2018.765.1.3
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [it still fills me with horror!]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered vertically with a Japanese rising sun flag, surrounded by the words 'it still fills me with horror! Dorothy age 89' in red. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative...AWM2018.765.1.2
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [Mrs Matsuo's poem - English]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered vertically with the a poem by Matsue Matsuo translated into English: 'A flower raised / That he might fall / For the Emperor's / sake. / But after the storm / The garden lo...AWM2018.765.1.5
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [Mrs Matsuo's poem - Japanese]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt featuring a Japanese poem by Matsue Matsuo in calligraphy. A second belt, AWM2018.765.1.5, is embroidered with an English translation of the poem. It was stitched by a Japanese woman. ...AWM2018.765.1.6
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [symbols of lives lost]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt featuring embroidered gum nuts and cherry blossoms in red and black thread. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese ...AWM2018.765.1.7
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [the dove]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered horizontally with red flowers and two white doves in flight. A Thousand Stitches of Hope was a collaborative art project involving hundreds of Australian and Japanese wom...AWM2018.765.1.4
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [words of wisdom]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt embroidered with the profile of a submarine concealed by a pattern of criss-crossed stripes. The text 'Lest We forget / May all forgive' is embroidered with the image in red. This belt...AWM2018.765.1.8
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A Thousand Stitches of Hope [year of the tiger]
Art
Maker: Belgiorno, Michelle
Senninbari belt horizontally embroidered in red with a Tasmanian tiger. On each side of the tiger is a square pattern made of 90 small knots. A coin has been sewn onto the seam of each tie. A Thousan...AWM2018.765.1.9
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Autographed and embroidered Union Jack: Miss Lillian Alice Scheidel
Heraldry
Maker: Scheidel, Lillian Alice
Autographed Union Jacked with the names over-embroideed in white, red and blue. The signatures include: The Duke and Duchess of York - 1927 (Later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; Edward Prince of ...RELAWM16068
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Autographed linen traycloth made by Japanese war criminals at Rabaul : Australian Army Chaplain Gordon Henry Young
Heraldry
Maker: Karube, Saburo
White linen traycloth inscribed in red at the top 'TO REV. & MRS. YOUNG MERRY XMAS'. The cloth is painted in colour with a representation of Mt Fuji, a lake, flowering cherry tree and pine trees. The ...REL/18687
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Canvas work embroidery : Able Seaman Victor Peace Sotheren, HMAS Hobart
Heraldry
Maker: Sotheren, Victor Peace
Canvas work Dutch landscape, worked in cross stitch with polished cotton embroidery thread, in shades of blue, white, green, yellow, ochre, brown, black and mauve. The scene shows traditional Dutch ho...REL41320
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Crocheted beret : Captain W E F Oram, 13 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Young, Wilma Elizabeth Forster
Red and cream cotton 'string' crocheted beret. Beret is red with two circular white stripes, each two rows wide, on the crown.REL/12523
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Egyptian souvenir table runner : Sergeant V J Hibbens, RAAF, 145 Squadron RAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Black cotton velveteen souvenir table runner with a yellow cotton fringe. The runner is embroidered in machine chainstitch in shades of yellow, gold, blue, pink, mauve, white and grey. Across the top ...REL38778
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Embroidered 'Australian Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Aldworth, Edna Jessie Auger, Beatrice Maud 'Trixie' Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Barnes, Betsy Florence Nea ‘Nea’ Bell, Mary Elizabeth Blackman, Elaine de Souza Blackman, Hazel Ivy Bloom, Freddy Bond, Elizabeth 'Betty' Boston, Joan Margaret Brown, Iris Dora Bruhn, Sheila Philomena Winifred Burgin, Valerie Roberts Burns, Margaret Burstall, Mary Louise Cogan, Geraldine Mary Corley, Constance Doris Haigh 'Doris' Cornelius, Mary Dorothy 'Dorothy' Early, Sheila Ennis, Marion Elizabeth 'Elizabeth' Fletcher, Lucy Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Good, Dorothy G E ‘Judy’ Gottlieb, Valentine Gladys 'Gladys' Gough, Elise Rose Griffith-Jones, Anne Laugharne Phillips Grist, Isobel Jeanne Harness, Caroline Annie Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Hunt, Ena Jenkins, Isobel Helen Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet Kennard, Kathleen Getrude La Cloche, Alice Louise Lacey, Hilda Grace Latta, Helen Anne Logan, Diana Margaret MacKenzie, Sybil Kathleen Macdonald, Dorothy Mather, Dorothy May McCubbin, Jessie McIntosh-Whyte, Joan Mary McIntyre, Vera Amy Victoria McIvor, Judy McMorine, Martha Garrick Millard, Betsey Mitchell, P J Moir, Ellen Agnes Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Edith Harle Hickie Nealson, J H Pape, Agnes Milroy Parfitt, Iris Gladys Joyce Rackham, Anne Reilly, Rodney Florence Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Scott, Mary Pearl Shorthouse, Muriel Smalley, Betty I Smallwood, Margaret Sowerby, Olive Stanley-Cary, Joan Frances Lois Thomas, Mary Tompkins, Lilian Gladys 'Gladys' Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee Von Hagt, Ethne Von Hagt, Violet Walker, Barbara Watson, Alice May 'May' Watson, Marjory Webster, Marie Alma Whitehead, Irene Williams, Gladys Marion Williams, Sue Wills, Helen Redpath Logan de Moubray, Katherine Mary
Quilt made up of 66 embroidered squares, each 'signed' in embroidery with the maker's name. All the squares are edged with turkey red chain-stitch. The squares are bounded by a broad white cotton bord...REL/14235
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Embroidered Australian coat of arms : Private J G Kettle, 2/5 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Kettle, James Gerrard 'Jimmy'
Version of the Australian coat of arms worked in mercerised red, brown, white and orange cotton thread on a discoloured white cotton backing. The design features two kangaroos, (rather than the tradi...REL33541
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Embroidered autographed handkerchief : Lance Corporal William Thomas Whitlock, 2/3 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Man's white linen handkerchief with numerous autographs which have been over-embroidered in red, mauve, puce, green and yellow stemstich. 'KAI-ORA' is embroidered in green in one corner. The signature...REL/06878
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Embroidered autographed tablecloth : Mrs Alexandra Fowles, Lunghwa Civil Assembly Centre, Shanghai
Heraldry
Maker: Fowles, Alexandra
White linen tablecloth with a 85 mm wide drawn threadwork hem decorated with multi-coloured stem-stitch embroidery in mercerised cotton embroidery thread. The centre carries a 'map' representing the ...RELAWM32380
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Embroidered curtain : Aircraftwoman M M Hess, 23 Radar Station RAAF Lytton
Heraldry
Maker: Hess, Mabel Muriel
Black cotton curtain embroidered in the centre in satin stitch with a gold and red RAAF eagle surmounted by a king's crown. Beneath, within a red stem stitch inverted triangle, is '23 RDF WAAAF' in wh...REL/12688
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Embroidered cushion : Flying Officer P C Firkins, 460 Squadron, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cream silk covered cushion embroidered on one side with '460 Squadron George' and the names operations and specific towns that were the targets of bombing raids in which Flying Officer P C Firkins too...REL33106
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Embroidered handkerchief : Lance Corporal A H Mitchell, 22 Brigade Headquarters
Heraldry
Maker: Mitchell, Albert Henry
White cotton handkerchief embroidered in yellow, green, blue, red and orange chain and backstitch. The handkerchief shows a green outline map of Australia marked with the state boundaries and capital ...REL/03964
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Embroidered 'Japanese Changi quilt': Female internees, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Aitken, Violet Pauline Austen-Hofer, Eunice Elizabeth Beck, Helen Bell, Mary Elizabeth Bloom, Freddy Bridges, Grace Broadbent, Maud Brown, Iris Dora Burns, Margaret Clark, Muriel Graham Cutler, Rona Clements De Jager, Toosje Dickinson, Contance Ethel ‘Pauline’ Dixon, Norah Edwards, Joyce Edwards, Mary Evans, A Francis, Edith May 'Kay' Greaves, Florence Gregory, Minnie Rosamund Hancock, Clarice Heath, Kathleen Margaret Hegarty, Bridget Henderson, Jean Hooper, Wantar N'nakon Hughes, Mary Campbell Crawford Chalmers Iris Jackson, Priscilla Hannah Jamieson, Alice Mary Elizabeth Lawtie Jones, Eileen Jones, Nora Janet King, Eveline Mary Kinnear, Gwendolyn Edith Allen Kitts, Rhoda Margaret Koek, Cynthia Kronin, Angela Lacey, Caroline Lindsay, Evelyn Gladys Loveridge, Edith Annie Martin, Looleen Anna Martin, Nellie Maunder McCubbin, Jessie McLeod, Ethel Cory Moir, Ellen Agnes Morier, M Mulvany, Ethel Rogers Murphy, Kathleen B L 'Pat' Palomar, Leonora Patterson, Violet May Hilda Pearson, Eileen Mary Rank, Minnie Louise Rattray, Emma Edith Lascelles Renton, Constance Ethel Russell-Davis, Freda Elaine Ruthven, Dora Lansdale Sadler, Eva Maud Scott, Mary Pearl Stafford, Nora Ethel Sullivan, Anne Muriel Tan, Ruth Kathleen Uniacke, Elizabeth Mary Unknown internee White, Helen Dorothy Wickett, Mary June Willies, Ada Wood, Florence
Handmade quilt constructed from 66 embroidered or appliquéd squares each ‘signed’ in embroidery with the maker(s) name. All the squares are edged with turkey red feather-stitch. The squares are bounde...RELAWM32526
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Embroidered map of Australia : Corporal E G P Sullivan, 2/18 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Sullivan, Edward Gordon Patrick (Pat)
Embroidered Commonwealth Bank cotton cash bag. One side is printed with the bank's details. The other is heavily embroidered with mercerised cotton embroidery thread in shades of red, pink, mauve, gre...REL/03670
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Embroidered matting notebook cover : Mrs C M Levison (nee Touw), civil internee
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dustjacket-style notebook cover made from the remains of a 'tikar' (pronounced teeker) or woven sleeping mat. The matting is aligned obliquely and is possibly made from strips of pandanus leaves. The ...REL25331
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Embroidered Nazi Badge : Private J G Kettle, 2/5 Australian General Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Kettle, James Gerrard 'Jimmy'
Nazi swastika and eagle embroidered in red, white, black, orange and brown cotton on a discoloured white cotton backing.REL33542
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Embroidered signature apron : Jan O'Herne and Dutch women at Kamp 1A Ambarawa Internment Camp, Java
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Woman's white cotton apron with decorative blue edge of bias binding. The bib of the apron is embroidered in red and brown with 'Kamp 1A Ambarawa 1942', which has been underscored with a strand of emb...REL26397
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Embroidered skirt made by female internees in Changi Gaol, May 1942
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Short, fine white linen circular dance skirt with left side placket opening fastened by a single press stud and a waistband fastened by two metal hooks and eyes. Down the front are listed 19 numbers p...REL33930
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Embroidered Souvenir of Egypt
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square black velveteen cloth machine embroidered in each corner with a representation of the Australian Army General Service 'Rising Sun' badge. Each long side carries a representation of the three Gr...REL44352
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Embroidered Souvenir of Palestine, 1943
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Black velveteen cushion cover, backed with cream calico, with a gold cotton fringe. The cover is machine chainstitch embroidered in white, blue, red and light brown with (from the top) 'Souvenir of Pa...REL37362
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Embroidered Souvenir of Palestine, Second World War
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Multi-coloured machine chain stitch embroidered, appliqued and painted Souvenir of Palestine on a black velveteen ground. The design includes a King's crown, appliqued synthetic fabric crossed Union a...REL35385
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Embroidered souvenir signature cloth : Mrs A M Cuthbe, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary
Rectangular, fine cream linen, souvenir cloth, machine hemmed on one edge and hand hemmed on the other three edges. The cloth is edged with cream cotton lace applied with fine hand whipped stitches. T...REL/08534
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Embroidered souvenir signature cloth : Mrs A M Cuthbe, Changi Prison
Heraldry
Maker: Cuthbe, Augusta Mary
Cream linen souvenir cloth, embroidered throughout in fine chainstitch and hand hemmed. The long sides are edged with hand applied cotton lace. The short sides have a decorative embroidered zigzag bor...REL/08533
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Embroidered sugar bag: Private William Alfred Shardlow, 8 Field Ambulance
Heraldry
Maker: Shardlow, William Alfred
Embroidered hessian sugar bag with fawn fringed edging. Horizontally, the front of the bag has an embroidery depicting a garden and the text 'New Guinea 1943-44'. The design is three central rectang...AWM2019.842.2
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Embroidered table cloth : 106 General Hospital, Australian Army Medical Services
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square linen tablecloth with a broad double border formed by two intersecting rows of drawn threadwork. Each panel thus formed features the embroidered signature of a member of the AIF, with an emphas...REL37598
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Embroidered tablecloth : Mrs H Shiach
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular table cloth made from plain weave cotton, with embroidered red and blue autographs. Four autographs are not embroidered; three of these are in ink and one in pencil. In one corner is the n...REL35670
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Home made austerity doll : CWA Queensland
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Home made black mammy doll, with long cotton print dress with white cotton collar and cuffs, cotton print cap (matching dress) with red grosgrain bow, white apron, miniature bead bracelets (left is go...REL/15582
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Home made austerity toy rabbit with booties: CWA Queensland
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Blue velveteen stuffed rabbit toy made for a baby girl, with pink bead eyes, red embroidered mouth, and a pocket (82 x 50mm) on its proper left side containing a pair of knitted pink bootees (95 x 45 ...REL/15583.001
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Part of embroidered Duchess set : Leading Seaman V P Sotheren, RAN
Heraldry
Maker: Sotheren, Victor Peace
Cream linen central section of a three piece Duchess set for a woman's dressing table. The scalloped edges are finished with drawn threadwork. There are four identical hand embroidered panels, in sati...REL41336
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Patriotic embroidery : Mrs E I Donovan
Heraldry
Maker: Duchess Superior Needlework Schmidt, Emily
White linen embroidered with a 'Rising Sun' design of bayonets sewn with cream thread surrounding a King's Crown embroidered in yellow, red and blue. The words 'AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES...REL37407
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Patriotic milk jug cover : HMAS Australia (II)
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Circular machine made lace filet featuring a front three-quarters view of HMAS Australia (II) at sea with crew visible on the bow. The border is finished in a hand made filet crochet repeating club or...REL41822
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'Radio Times' embroidered magazine cover, made in Concord Military Hospital
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Light brown linen protective cover to take a copy of 'Radio Times'. Each side of the cover has a vertical pocket to hold the magazine in place (copy missing) and a rigid cardboard backing that is hing...REL29051
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Rehabilitation embroidery of Princes Bridge, Melbourne : Private L C Taylor, 14/32 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Taylor, Laurence Cecil
Black stem stitch rehabilitation embroidery of Princes Bridge, Melbourne, showing Flinder's Street Railway Station in the background.REL29085.001
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Signed embroidered tablecloth : Mesdames Emma Foster and Olga Hope Pott (nee Foster)
Heraldry
Maker: Foster, Emma Pott, Olga Hope
White linen embroidered tablecloth with crochet lace border. The tablecloth is embroidered with a central pattern of pink, purple, blue and yellow flowers with green leaves and a brown dotted backgrou...REL47250
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Souvenir of Palestine cushion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Yellow cotton sateen machine embroidered souvenir of Palestine cushion with blue cotton fringe. In the centre of the cushion is an embroidered Rising Sun badge in white, red and mauve thread in a chai...REL38009
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Souvenir of Palestine : Sapper D Graham, 2/5 Australian Field Park Company
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular green velveteen fabric table cover with a plain white cotton backing, red border and blue fringe. The face of the cover is embroidered, in yellow, orange, red green and white. It has a bor...REL35339
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Souvenir of Vancouver cushion cover: Pilot Officer R K Manttan, 32 Operational Training Royal Canadian Air Force, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Dark blue silk cushion cover with a puce and yellow braid edge. Painted at the top of the cover is 'Souvenir of Vancouver'. The centre of the cover is painted with the poem, 'Dear Sister/ Here's a wis...REL/09170
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To my dear boy
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Embroidered silk postcard made in France during the First World War. Of envelope design, this postcard features bunting made from the Red Ensign, Italian, French, American and Russian flags. It also f...RC05915
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Tree
Art
Maker: Gunther, Pat
Embroidery completed in Palembang, Sumatra, depicting a large eucalypt gum tree and surrounding landscape. A number of Australian nurses, including Pat Gunther, survived the sinking of the 'Vyner Broo...ART90951
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Unworked patriotic embroidery : Miss M E Henery
Heraldry
Maker: Duchess Superior Needlework
Section of unworked cream coloured linen printed in ink with three embroidery designs for a dressing table. The edge of each design has drawn threadwork hem. The main pattern is of a 'Rising Sun' desi...REL31722
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Wartime production embroidery pattern apron : Mrs B Sayers, South Perth
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Calico based transfer embroidery pattern apron featuring a design of a woman on a beach, wearing 1940s period clothing, with a palm to either side of her. The pattern edges are defined by broken lines...REL35989
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Wartime production embroidery pattern Duchess set : Mrs B Sayers, South Perth
Heraldry
Maker: Myart Company Pty Ltd
Calico based Duchess set pattern featuring a pair of doylies and a centre cloth for a dressing table, each displaying transfer Design No 234 - 'Pandora' garden wall. Printed along the base of the clot...REL35986
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Wartime production embroidery pattern, 'Pandora' design tray cloth : Mrs B Sayers, South Perth
Heraldry
Maker: Myart Company Pty Ltd
Calico based transfer tray cloth pattern, displaying Design No 234 - 'Pandora' garden wall. Printed along the base of the cloth are the following: 'Wartime Production' ; '14 x 20 No S234'. The pattern...REL35987
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Wartime production embroidery pattern tablecloth : Mrs B Sayers, South Perth
Heraldry
Maker: Myart Company Pty Ltd
Calico based transfer pattern tablecloth featuring a flower design in each corner, with pre-formed drawn threadwork edges. One small area of the pattern has been embroidered; the remainder is unworked...REL35988
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White linen table cloth embroidered with the names of servicemen & nurses 1941 : TSS Nea Hellas
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White linen tablecloth embroidered in various colours with the names of nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service and soldiers of the 2/33 Battalion, as well as members of the ship's crew and othe...REL28238