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Subiaco Museum > Records

FRIENDSHIP CLOTH: EMBROIDERED WHITE SUPPER CLOTH, BLUE STITCHED SIGNATURES

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Overview

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 stit and & satin st and h & some with drawn thre and ork & 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 r and blue & 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.

Historical information

The Methodist Church Guild members worked the supper cloth in blue for members, gold for the President or the person who initiated the project.

Details

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1999.15

Item type

Material

Width

800 mm

Height or length

800 mm

Keywords

Church - Methodist Church (Organisation)

Bagot Road, Subiaco

Church - Methodist Church (Organisation)

DOMESTIC EQUIPMENT

Museum Treasure

Statement of significance

Historical Significance - local, cultural, social. Example of women's activity of the period

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Object’s condition or completeness

Rare or representative

Well provenanced

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