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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

CROCHET, IRISH, COLLAR

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c. 1900

Overview

A lady’s lace collar, fine example of hand Irish crochet, made in Ireland circa 1900, rarely found in current time.

The collar, made of independent motifs - shamrock, shamrock petalled flower, and rose - are connected with crochet bars with picots.

The large petalled flowers is a shamrock flower, with varied number of petals – one has 7, three have 8, two have 9 and one has 10.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2024.61

Width

370 mm

Height or length

370 mm

Year

Last modified

Thursday, 14 August, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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