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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

TOOL, TEMPLATE

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c. 1960 - 1969

Overview

Blue plastic handcraft tools, part of a ‘Handcraft Kit’, which came free with English ‘Woman and Home’ magazine in 1950s in Western Australia.

The label for the kit lists the contents of four items, but only 2 were donated.

TWO SIZE HEXAGON TEMPLATE for patchwork (a)

TWO BOBBINS to keep wool tangle-free in two and three colour knitting (b & c)

No 8 CABLE NEEDLE for cable stitch knitting Not available

RUG NEEDLE for flat-pile rugs ( and it doubles as a needle for sewing up knitteds Not available

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-78-2023.19a-c

Year

Last modified

Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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