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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

TOOL, MEASURE

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c. 1960 - 1969

Overview

Multi-purpose plastic measuring tool which came free with English magazine, ‘Woman and Home’, in Western Australia in 1960s.

A valuable tool for the home sewer – to check knitting tension, a knitting needle gauge, buttonhole spacer, embroidery stencil, hem marker, scallop edge marker and seam turner.

Blue plastic, branded “Knit’N Sew Time Saver Designed by Woman and Home”

A page removed from the magazine, gives instructions on it use.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2023.18

Width

125 mm

Height or length

163 mm

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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