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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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Australian Army issue housewife
Heraldry
Maker: H.E. Barry and Son Pty Ltd
Australian Army sewing kit made from khaki cotton. Most of the inside of the sewing kit is lined with cotton with thin blue and white stripes. '4800' is written near one edge in black ink. The kit is...REL33211
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Barmera, SA. January 1944. Japanese internees at Loveday Internment Camp sewing a bale of opium ...
Photograph
Maker: Cullen, Hedley Keith
Barmera, SA. January 1944. Japanese internees at Loveday Internment Camp sewing a bale of opium poppy heads before removal from the wool-press which is used in the baling process. Japanese internees i...030268/11
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Collection relating to Polsson Family, including Private Axel Oscar Polsson (883) 2nd Battalion
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Group portrait of unidentified women of the Women's Patriotic Sewing Guild, part of the Australian Comforts Fund and accompanying children at a celebration. Mrs Caroline Polsson, whose son 883 Private...P11675.003
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Darwin area, NT. 1944-10. Two RAAF trainee guards sharpen bayonets and catch up on some sewing ...
Photograph
Darwin area, NT. 1944-10. Two RAAF trainee guards sharpen bayonets and catch up on some sewing during leisure time at a RAAF training camp.NWA0653
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Darwin, NT. c. 1944. Off-duty nursing sisters relaxing in their well appointed mess at 129th ...
Photograph
Maker: Crosthwaite, M K
Darwin, NT. c. 1944. Off-duty nursing sisters relaxing in their well appointed mess at 129th Australian General Hospital (129 AGH). Some are reading or writing, another is sewing and a nurse is tuning...P02244.005
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Dutch New Guinea. Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Lance Burnett of Sydney, NSW, sits and darns his ...
Photograph
Maker: Fitzpatrick, Samuel James Henry Herbert (Jim)
Dutch New Guinea. Leading Aircraftman (LAC) Lance Burnett of Sydney, NSW, sits and darns his socks while LAC Ian Tynan of Hobart, Tas, takes it easy in the cool of the evening outside their tropical t...016866
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FEMALE MACHINISTS AT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CLOTHING FACTORY SEWING UNIFORMS FOR THE FORCES.
Photograph
Maker: Henty, S
FEMALE MACHINISTS AT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CLOTHING FACTORY SEWING UNIFORMS FOR THE FORCES.008927
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FEMALE MACHINISTS AT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CLOTHING FACTORY SEWING UNIFORMS FOR THE FORCES ...
Photograph
Maker: Henty, S
FEMALE MACHINISTS AT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CLOTHING FACTORY SEWING UNIFORMS FOR THE FORCES OUT OF KHAKI DRILL MATERIAL. NOTE THE PINUPS AND PATRIOTIC DECORATIONS.008929
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FEMALE WORKER SEATED AT HER SINGER SEWING MACHINE, GEORGINA DUNN MACHINES FACINGS ON AIR FORCE ...
Photograph
Maker: Henty, S
FEMALE WORKER SEATED AT HER SINGER SEWING MACHINE, GEORGINA DUNN MACHINES FACINGS ON AIR FORCE JACKETS AT THE COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT CLOTHING FACTORY.008926
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Fil A. Coudre 400 Yds : Squadron Leader P A C Haberecht, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Reel of khaki coloured cotton with a blue paper label wrapped around the outside. The cotton has been wound onto the cardboard spool. The blue label has 'FIL A. COUDRE / 400 YDS.' printed onto it in r...REL35968