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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

TOOL, MENDING KIT

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Two small circular mending kits in an Art Deco style packaging containing needles and thread.

(a) This package is labelled “For Your Sewing” and contains half white and half black thread wound onto a shaped card and assorted needles.
(b) Contains a card containing five different shades of Art Silk Hose mending thread and a packet of needles for Hose (Hosiery).
Both kits contain Abel Morrall’s Super Quality Flora MacDonald needles which are described as “a pleasure to use”.

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cwa-org-78-2022.20a,b

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Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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