FRIENDSHIP CLOTH: EMBROIDERED WHITE SUPPER CLOTH, BLUE STITCHED SIGNATURES
Cotton embroidered supper cloth [Friendship cloth]. Signatures of Guild members embroidered in blue cotton threads and one signature in gold. Embroidery worked in a series of straight stitch and satin stitch and some with drawn threadwork and a crocheted lace border. The signature in gold may have been the woman who initiated the sewing of the cloth. The usual colours for the embroidery were red and blue and white, probably representing the Union Jack .This cloth was a Guild effort by the Methodist Church, Bagot Road, Subiaco in the 1950's. In gold thread. 'B. Canning.' In blue thread B. Roper, N. Johnson, W.M. Kidd, W.M. Limb, E. Kidd, C. Carter, D. Davis, C. Tillson, R.M. Richards, E. Crews, E. Marker, I. Fist, H. Smith, J. Richards, E. Rowell, I.A. Henley, E. Broadbent, H. Cheney, ?Vaughan, E. Jenkins, V. Stephenson, T. Openshaw, N. Johnston, J. MacArthur, A.M Dixon, J. Strother, G. Wilke, G. Melbourne, M. McCallum, H. Habey, M. Pearson, C. Sorry, M. Barnes.
The Methodist Church Guild members worked the supper cloth in blue for members, gold for the President or the person who initiated the project.
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Historical Significance - local, cultural, social. Example of women's activity of the period
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