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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

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These 2 wooden templates are examples of one of the many variations of lace wheels used to create Teneriffe lace.

Consisting of a wooden base with even number of holes drilled around the perimeter and other holes elsewhere, into which pins or nails are inserted to be used as a foundation across which a web of threads is laid and supported while the decorative embroidery is worked.

(a) Is circular in shape 100 mm diameter (b) is oval shape 90 x 70 mm

Accompanying these wheels are two sets of notes.

i) Course LACEMAKING from ANNA BURDA Knitting and Needlecrafts 3/84 = presumably March 1984

ii) A3 sheet with hand drawn diagrams of different sized and shapes of wheels with the holes indicated with dots.

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cwa-org-78-2023.9a,b

Last modified

Wednesday, 13 August, 2025

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61

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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