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Functional object - Boot Silk
... handcrafts ...From the Betty McPhee sewing collectionWooden reel of yellow boot machine silk used in boot manufacture and repair..C.R. Rickards Bell Bush Mills Via Leedshandcrafts, equipment -
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Functional object - Card of Buttons, c1930
... handcrafts ...From the Betty McPhee sewing collection.A card labelled 'Modern Miss' with a colour picture of a ladies face and a reel of thread and scissors with five 22 cm cream plastic buttons attached by thread.'Modern Miss'handcrafts, dressmaking -
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Functional object - Cotton Reel, Crochet Cotton
... handcrafts ...From the Betty McPhee Sewing collection.A cotton reel made of cardboard comprising a cylinder with cap at each end. It has a small amount of pink crochet cotton with paper label at each end.Mile End Crochet Cotton Brilliant Clark's 100 yards.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work -
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Container - Wool Container, c1950
... handcrafts ...Green plastic round container in two equal parts - on fitting into the other. Used to hold a ball of wool. A hole in the top allowed the wool to thread through whilst knitting. Original it would have had ribbon through the top so that could be hung from the knitter's arm.handcrafts, knitting -
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Leisure object - Knitting
... handcrafts ...Purchased from OP Shop, Vermont, Victoria by member Historical Society: a collection of One Woman's Patterns, Sept 1947 - April 1951Knitted lace doyley & cotton (ecru) on five steel Fairy Knitting Needles. Included: six patterns, three transfer sheets. Contained in Walker's Shortbread biscuit tin. A total of 18 items make up the set.handcrafts, knitting -
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Textile - Filet lace tablecloth corner
... handcrafts ...Unfinished, crocheted corner for lace tablecloth, original owner Betty McPheeFilet lace, corner piece for tablecloth, unfinished. Colour ecru. Inside edge finished straight; outside edge alternating large and small scallops. Pattern, grapevine with hanging flowershandcrafts, crocheting or crochet work -
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Domestic object - Milk jug cover
... handcrafts ...From collection of Betty McPhee. A round, cream cover with yellow and blue glass beads. Design: 6 radiating diamonds with centres of blue and yellow diamonds worked alternately. Outer edge: fans decorated with tear-drop shaped glass beads.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work -
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Craft - Darning samples
... handcrafts ...Collected by Betty McPheeSeven samples of invisible darning, classified: 1st and 2nd in Fifth Class; three in Fourth Class; all sewn into lid and base of Red Tulip Jellied Fruit boxhandcrafts, needlework -
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Textile - Beaded Lace
... handcrafts ...Piece of black beaded lacehandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Domestic object - Milk Jug Cover
... handcrafts ...White cotton crocheted milk jug cover with blue trimming and blue beads used as weightshandcrafts, needlework -
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Container - Needlecraft Box
... handcrafts ...Box containing multiple embroidery cotton threads. Box has bird and leaves and flowers painted on lid.handcrafts, equipment -
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Decorative object - Doyley
... HANDCRAFTS ...White crochet doyley. This is part of a set of three. See Na 500 and 550.handcrafts, needlework -
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Domestic object - Tea Cosy
... handcrafts ...White embroidered tea cosy with quilted lining.handcrafts, needlework -
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Craft - Thimble
... HANDCRAFTS ...Brass ThimblePharmacie De Haussyhandcrafts, equipment -
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Domestic object - Thimble
... handcrafts ...Pink Thimblehandcrafts, equipment -
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Decorative object - Doyley
... HANDCRAFTS ...White Lace doyley. This is part of a set of three. See Na 530 and 500.handcrafts, needlework -
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Domestic object - Pin Cushion
... handcrafts ...Diamond shaped purple pin cushion with flowers and leaves painted on. Fringed edge.Frae Bonnie Scotlandhandcrafts, needlework -
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Textile - Lace Piece
... handcrafts ...Square piece of cream lacehandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Textile - Lace Piece
... handcrafts ...Piece of cream maltese lacehandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Craft - Pin Cushion
... HANDCRAFTS ...Pink patchwork pincushion with darker pink pattern and sides.handcrafts, needlework -
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Craft - Prickings for lace pattern
... handcrafts ...Cardboard with prickings to mark out lace patternhandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Craft - Reels of Lace Thread
... handcrafts ...Two spools of white lace threadHarris Lace Thread Flax No. 70 2 Cordhandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Textile - Doyley
... handcrafts ...Small round doyley made of filet lacehandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Textile - Doyley
... handcrafts ...White doyley made of filet lacehandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Textile - Doyley
... handcrafts ...White cotton doyley with deep crocheted lace edginghandcrafts, lacemaking -
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Decorative object - Sampler, 1989
... handcrafts ...Framed cream coloured sampler on blue background presented in sections: Section 1: Blue coloured birds Section 2: Alphabet in upper case - Green Section 3: Alphabet in lower case - Blue|Section 4: Numbers 1-0 - Yellow Section 5: Flowers - Yellow, Pink, Blue Section 6: Name of worker and year: Worked by Lorna Vague 1989Worked by Lorna Vague 1989handcrafts, embroidery -
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Book - Books, Knitting, Knitting book for girls, 1935, c1930s, c1940s
... handcrafts ...Four Books -1935 Lux Knitting Book, Knitting Book for Girls No 4(1930s), Layettes New Series No 101, Gloves Socks and Caps (1940s)Lux Book Lever Brothers, A "New Idea" Production/Publicationbooks, handcrafts -
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Functional object - Key - 21st, Approx August, 1935
... handcrafts ...This is the twenty-first key presented to Ronald Arthur Edwards in August 1935. The celebration, held at his parents home in Husband Road, Forest Hill, was attended by many well known local people who signed his birthday key. Ronald Edwards was the youngest child of Arthur and Martha Edwards. In 1929 aged 15 he contracted poliomyelitis and became an invalid. He died in 1955 at Forest Hill.This item is significant in the history of Forest Hill as all the attendees and Ronald Arthur Edwards are from the pioneering families of the area of the Shire of Nunawading.Large wooden plywood key made to celebrate the 21st birthday of Ronald Arthur Edwards in August 1935. Written on handle end in pen Ron Edwards 21st - 19.Key end signed Anna Course, Herbert Course, R.J. Bird, D.J. Bogle.Reverse side R. Course, A.H. Course, Aunt Corrie, F. Bogle, Aunt Harriet, Marjory Course, S. Edwards, Edwards, H. Edwards, E. Edwards, Doug Edwards, Charlie Course, Jean Course, Tom Bailey, H.S. Tainton, N. Tainton, ?Luen Edwards, C.W. Bird, ?S.U. Course, J. Porter, Bob Course, J.E. Bird, M.P.? Course, ?Edwards, L. Tainton, J. Bird, Shirley Edwards, H. Edwards, Ed, A.E. Edwards, Albert H..., V. Edwards, F. Smith, W. Smith, L.James, E. Galley ?, A.E. Edwards, Mother and Father. Gold traces on one side; 21 carved out in key end.See Descriptionhandcrafts, woodwork -
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Textile - Doiley
... handcrafts ...Belonged to donor's late husband's grandmotherDoiley 29cm x 15cm colour ecru. Fillet Crochet. Two dogs facing each other in the center and block design around edge.handcrafts, crocheting or crochet work -
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Textile - Doyley, circa 1910
... handcrafts ...Grandmother of donor, Martha Edwards' own work, circa 1910A round lightly scalloped edged mat with crocheted edge featuring hollyhocks in yellow, pink, blue and trellis style fence in brownhandcrafts, embroidery