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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

GENERAL EMBROIDERY, MAT

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c. 1900

Overview

Sets of ceramic flying ducks, usually in groups of 3, were a very popular home décor in the 1950s and 1960s,

Made in the home of English pottery, Stoke-on-Trent, at the Beswick Factory in England between 1938 and 1976, the Mallard ducks and other birds, including kingfishers and kookaburras, were popular with the rising middle class.

This doyley, with three embroidered Mallard ducks flying over a pond, encapsulates their popularity in the mid 20th century.

Doyley has a scalloped machine lace edging.

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2023.125

Width

285 mm

Height or length

350 mm

Year

Last modified

Monday, 18 August, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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