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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

GENERAL EMBROIDERY, BOOK MARK

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1957

Overview

Embroidered bookmark by Guild Member, Joan Sibenaler, was stitched in late 1950s by her aged 9,10 or 11, when attending East Fremantle Primary School, in Western Australia.

This stitching was part of WA Education sewing curricula for girls.

Bookmark stitched on green cotton fabric, uses stitches of buttonhole on the sides, stem, lazy daisy, running and whipped running stitch sewn with perle 12 cotton thread. Words ‘Book Mark” embroidered in whipped running stitch.

Ends are fringed.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2023.108

Width

80 mm

Height or length

200 mm

Year

Last modified

Monday, 18 August, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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