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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

LACE, TAPE, CUFFS

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c. 1900

Overview

A unique and unusual pair of crocheted lady’s cuffs or “engageantes” with no other examples in the collection. Engageantes, are often frilly, ruffled under sleeves, or false sleeves worn with women’s clothing, particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. Engageantes took the form of ruffles or flounces of linen, cotton or lace, tacked to the elbow length sleeves designed to be worn under the sleeves of a dress, with only the decorative cuff or ruffles visible. Our engageantes are composed of two horizontal bands of machine princess tape lace with an elaborate design of a chain of 17 flowers with 8 leaves crocheted above and below on each flower in the top band and 25 flowers with 8 leaves crocheted around each flower in the bottom band. The two bands are crocheted together with a scalloped crocheted bottom edging resulting in the ruffle. The colour is a natural

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-78-2025.136a-b

Year

Last modified

Monday, 24 November, 2025

Completeness

72

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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