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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

GENERAL EMBROIDERY, TABLE CLOTH

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A delightful beautifully embroidered table cloth with sprays of brightly coloured red Waratah flowers, the State floral emblem of NSW.
In each corner a spray of 5 large Waratah flowers and leaves beautifully embroidered in satin stitch and long and short stitch with delicate shading. In the centre of the tablecloth, 4 single Waratah flowers formed in a circle.

Machine spoke stitch around the scalloped edge, enabling a triangular crochet edge in 12 perle cotton in a triangular design, 15 mm wide.

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Registration number

cwa-org-78-2022.251

Last modified

Friday, 22 August, 2025

Completeness

61

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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