Bette Jones CollectionCream cotton crochet cake doyley with words CAKE and a rose design.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work

Small round crochet milk jug cover with small blue beads.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work, domestic items, food & drink consumption

Cream baby's bib crochet in artificial silk. Threaded with cream ribboncostume, infants'

White cotton tray cloth with crocheted lace border and embroidered garlands handcrafts, lacemaking, manchester, table linen

White cotton crocheted baby bonnet with ribbon threaded through eyelets.costume, infants'

White supper cloth hand worked crochet pieces in each corner.handcrafts, needlework, manchester, table linen

Cream cotton machined crochet tray cloth with one edge missingmanchester, table linen

Round cream crocheted doyley with six medallions around centre piece.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work, manchester, table linen

White linen handkerchief, hand crochet edge with medallion in one corner.costume accessories, female

Round cream woven d'oyley with white flower in centre and crochet edges.manchester, table linen, handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work

Blue doll's dress with both knitting and crochet and chain stitch ties.dolls clothing, knitting, crochet, wool, toys

Cream coloured knitted or crocheted shawl. Triangular with fringe on two sides. shawls, women's clothing, clothing accessories

Crocheted , cotton table runner with floral design and spiky scalloped edgescotton thread, table runners

Cream 'Huckaback' linen towel with insert of lattice crochet at both ends.manchester, bath linen, handcrafts, needlework

General purpose open weave cotton scrim as issued in Vietnam war. Used by National Serviceman, Lance Corporal B A Rosenthal, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment 1967-8, Mentioned in Despatches for his command and control during a section ambush in which he was wounded. Unit Citation for Gallantry for his involvement in the Battle of Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral.Green crochet cotton scarf used as a sweat rag for soldiers in jungle.scarf, sweat rag, sweat cloth, army scrim, rosenthal

Historically this item highlights the middle to upper to middle socio economic levels of a rural community in the 1920s to 1950s. The fashion dictated to by the larger cities and towns were for some smaller items of house hold furniture encompassed by homes in the region, not only because of practicality but also for longevity of the item it protected.The significance of this item in showing that although the region was to a small degree isolated from the "latest" fashion of house hold dressage, it was to a certain degree not regional and that the fashion of the day in large cities and towns was instilled through magazines and Country Women,s organisations.Fine cotton table runner. Middle section has a 2cm wide crochet insert around it with another border of cotton around it 2cm wide. All the item is edged with a 7cm wide crochet band.hand craft, furniture dressing, lace, crochet, cotton furniture proctective coverings

White cotton bust bodice with cream silk crochet lace on square neckline finishing in triangle point and two deep points. Deep edging of same crocheted cream tricot lace on short sleevescostume, female underwear

Archibald James Bower enlisted in World War I in November 1915, and was killed in action in France in August 1916. Before he left Australia, he drew designs on linen for his mother, Harriet Bower nee Harper, to embroider a quilt - mainly flowers, butterflies and moths. Mrs Bower finished the quilt, which was then used for many years by her grandson, Archibald William Luxford. He went to sleep every night, knowing the designs were drawn by the uncle he had never known, after whom he had been named.This quilt has historic significance as a memorial to a soldier lost in World War I. It is important as a tangible reminder of loss in war, and an example of how memorials to those lost in war take many forms. It has aestetic significance as an example of needlework that is original in design, with an impressive range of different stitches used to execute the design. It has spiritual significance to the Luxford family and the Munro community (even though Archie Bower was from Sale and the quilt moved later to Munro), as the quilt that Arch Luxford, a prominent member of the community, often spoke about as one his most important possessions. He was born after the death of his uncle, and named in memory of him. He grew up sleeping under the quilt, and knowing the story of his loss in World War I.A bedspread made principally of three sections of white linen sewn together with panels of crochet, with a deep linen edging and crochet edging. There are moths, butterflies and flowers embroidered on all sections in white cotton, as a form of candlewicking.world war 1914-1918, craft, needlework

A remnant of pin-tucked cotton and crochet lace fabric, cut from another article, cylindrical in shape with machine stitching joining the edges. There are two bands of crochet lace fabric, the lower one with scalloped edging.favaloro, pin-tucks

Popular before plastic bags, string bags home made circa 1940-1960Shopping bag of cotton string; folded into round crocheted purse, fastened with plastic bone button and crocheted loop. Unfolded, the purse functions as base. Colour bone. Two handles made of button-hole loop.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work, personal effects, travel goods

Four page paper fold out brochure with colour photograph on the front and printed black text on other pages. Image shows a woman wearing a pink short sleeved jumper with a cat on her lap.front: [printed] PRICE / 3d. / ALBANY / Knitting / Albanella Crochet / BUST 32-36 inches / 4-5 ozsknitting, pattern, fashion, knitwear, albany woollen mills

Sixteen page black and white pattern book with designs for hats, bags, gloves and blouses. Book contains black and white photographs and printed text. Front cover shows images of women wearing various knitted items. front: [printed] BOOK 67 / HATS, BAGS, GLOVES and BLOUSES / CROCHET AND KNITTED / Paragon / KNITTING BOOK / PRICE 1’3fashion, women, knitting, crochet, home life, patterns