Pair of white, cotton crocheted gloves
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- Type
- Gloves
- Place
- Ulmarra, New South Wales, Australia
- Materials
- Cotton cloth
- Collection
- Judy and Ian McPhee collection
- Accession number
- 2003.0033.0022
Description
A pair of white, cotton crocheted gloves with cuffs that flare towards the wrist and are decorated with a crocheted Irish rose design.
About the collection
The Judy McPhee collection is an early 20th century trousseau. It is an integrated set of items all made by one woman, Muriel McPhee, between about 1916 and 1918, in preparation for her wedding and subsequent married life. As an expression of what she thought of as her future status and actuality - how she expected to be defined - it tells us a great deal about familial , social and cultural determinants of women's status and self perception at that time, and about what happened when they failed to achieve their 'true destinies' as wives and mothers. It is also a fine example of a range of handcrafts representative ofthe period.
Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:27:44 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2026-09-08. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.