GENERAL EMBROIDERY, APRONS

Overview

Three attractive children’s calico aprons, hand embroidered with stranded cotton with nursery themes.

All three, the hems are tacked down.

(a) “THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE” embroidered words at the top of apron

Below, design of a shoe as a house set in a field embroidered in stranded cotton.

(b) “FISHING” across the top of apron, below a dog sitting on a wooden box, fishing in a pond.

(c) “GOOD MORNING” hand embroidered across the top of apron.

Below, a cockerall standing on a fence crowing.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-78-2023.136a-c
Last modified
Monday, 18 August, 2025
Completeness
61
Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Child's apron of Old Mother Hubbard
Child's apron of Old Mother Hubbard
Child's apron with fishing
Child's apron with fishing

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