Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society
Functional object - Tailor's Wax, 1880's
... ...Lettie SINCLAIR...This piece of wax was used by Lettie SINCLAIR and dates from the 1880's when she worked as a tailoress in Flinders Lane.
...This piece of wax was used by Lettie SINCLAIR and dates from the 1880's when she worked as a tailoress in Flinders Lane.
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Tailors rubbed linen thread through a lump of wax to give the thread extra strength- for example when sewing on buttons. This piece of wax was used by Lettie SINCLAIR and dates from the 1880's when she worked as a tailoress in Flinders Lane.
Lettie married Albert BELLION and lived in Stokes and Rouse Streets, Port Melbourne.
The wax was always in her sewing basket and later used by both her daughter and grand-daughter.A piece of Tailors' wax with ridges from having linen thread rubbed through it.business and traders - dressmaking, lettie sinclair, albert bellion, stokes street, rouse street
