Embroidered Signatures ProjectLipson. Tumby Bay: Cloth

Owner

National Trust. Tumby Bay Museum

Region

Eyre Peninsula

Creator

Mrs Jane Brougham (nee Scott)

Measurements

74cm x 73cm

Historical Period/Date

19th Century (1870-1999 Late)/c1880

ID Number

ESPO-145

Classifications

Cloths,Herringbone Stitch,Running Stitch,

Physical Description

Cream linen tea cloth with a 2cm hem decorated with red herringbone stitch. The names are all stitched in red and scattered all over the cloth. One signature appears faded.

Theme and Purpose

Commemorative. The handmade tea cloth was stitched with names of people from the Lipson district by Mrs Jane Brougham (nee Scott) of Yarandale shop and Post Office around the 1880’s. Her husband Howard died in 1889 and Jane who had 4 children married Mr William Carr of Lipson. The cloth was continued by Jane until her death in 1943. Names were still added by her daughter Mrs Edith Baille for some time after that. The cloth was donated by her family after her death. Not many names have dates but the earliest is 1903 and the latest is 1943.

Signatures

Below are the names that have been transcribed from this object. Multiple instances of a name on one object is indicated by a bracketed number after the name. A name in bold appears on other objects. Click these names to see the other objects.