{"id":7116,"date":"2014-11-04T06:56:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=7116"},"modified":"2014-11-03T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T00:21:00","slug":"from-the-archives-embroidered-collar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2014\/11\/04\/from-the-archives-embroidered-collar\/","title":{"rendered":"From the archives: embroidered collar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July 2005, we took a little trip down the south coast of NSW. While there, we visited Meroogal<\/a>, a house in Nowra that is administered by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. The house was built around 1885. The women of the family who lived there, the Thorburns, were accomplished embroiderers. One of the embroidered pieces that caught my eye that day was this collar.<\/p>\n

\"embroidered<\/a><\/p>\n

I think the colour is a bit off in this photo, but from memory it was a champagne sort of colour.<\/p>\n

The things that really attracted me to this piece were the texture and swirling motifs. Much of the stitching appears to be a padded square chain stitch. The stitching is probably worked in silk (though *may* be rayon) on silk satin fabric. The collar remains in remarkably good condition.<\/p>\n

Meroogal is preserved for people to view as a museum. The house was passed down through the Thorburn family, until it was sold in the early 1980s. The final owner of the house generously donated the entire contents of the house to the Historic Houses Trust, who bought the house.<\/p>\n

You can read more about Meroogal and the people who lived there at the Sydney Living Museums<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July 2005, we took a little trip down the south coast of NSW. While there, we visited Meroogal, a house in Nowra that is administered by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. The house was built around 1885. The women of the family who lived there, the Thorburns, were accomplished embroiderers. One of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7116"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7116\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}