Embroidered signature tablecloth auctioned to raise funds for Belgium Day, 14 May 1915

White linen table cloth, with drawn threadwork order, embroidered in white with numerous names. The centre of the cloth is painted with a stencilled representation of the Australian coat of arms with 'ADVANCE AUSTRALIA' beneath and crossed Union and Belgian flags above. Around the edge of the stencil are the embroidered names of the Belgian, French and Japanese Consuls, and Earl Kitchener. Around these names are two octagonal rows of names with the name of the Governor General's wife, Helen Munro-Ferguson, between the two bottom rows. The rest of the embroidered names, sometimes linked in family groups of surnames, are arranged to form a star outside the octagonal. Each corner has a chainstitched 'ribbon' and satinstitch flowers that link three rectangles. Each rectangle bears a number of names bearing the same surname. Apart from the ribbons and flowers all embroidery has been carried out in stemstich.

Cloth was made by Anne Beveridge (nee MacDonald) of "Eulie", Harden, New South Wales, to raise funds for the Belgian relief effort. The names on the cloth do not appear to be signatures as they have all been written in the same hand and then embroidered over. It is likely that people paid to have their name embroidered on the cloth. The tablecloth was then auctioned on Belgian Day, 14 May 1915, to raise further money. The successful bidder did not retain the cloth but presented it to Mrs Beveridge do that she could retain it as a keepsake of all her work.