Wartime production embroidery pattern apron : Mrs B Sayers, South Perth

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. A pocket is included. Printed in the lower border are the words 'Fautleys' and 'No 1656'. The price 1/6 is written in pencil in the lower right corner. The pattern is unworked.

Australian made transfer embroidery pattern produced during the Second World War. Normally these embroidery sets were printed on fine linen or cotton poplin but due to the wartime austerity and rationing programs, these examples are printed on a coarse unbleached calico. This and the other examples (see REL35987, REL35988 and REL35989) were purchased in Adelaide by Mrs Beatrice Sayers of South Perth during the Second World War. Mrs Sayers and her mother were keen embroiderers, but appear to never have spent much time working these patterns, with only small sections of two examples done. Beatrice Sayers' husband, WX13367 Gunner Edward Ronald Sayers, enlisted on 21 May 1941 and served with 2 Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment until his discharge on 26 October 1945.