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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

LACE, MAT

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Overview

Rarely seen now, this dainty doyley, made of plastic is an excellent example of machines emulating hand made lace using a new product, plastic, developed in early 20th century.

Plastic began to be mass-produced after the Second World War and then again during the 1960s and 1970s when consumers craved plastics to replace traditional materials because they are cheap, versatile, sanitary, and easy to manufacture into a variety of forms.

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Registration number

cwa-org-78-2024.30

Width

170 mm

Height or length

250 mm

Last modified

Thursday, 14 August, 2025

Completeness

61

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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